Mr Simms is right to insist on debating Democratic election being necessary for voting on Council, but ODT reporter Ruby Shaw is wrong to claim that I did not respond to questions in the hopelessly short 2 hour response time she gave on Sunday afternoon as I was repairing rain-damaged roads at our farm. I was not given reasonable or possible time to respond.
Lee Vandervis - lee@vandervision.co.nz 
So true Lee, unelected reps should NOT have voting rights on council. As for the ODT reporter, she like many within the MSM are the very reason that the MSM is failing world wide.