Chasing The Ambulance Chaser

***hey y'all, and welcome to TMGI and a post that was drafted nearly 2 months ago...it follows straight-on from a coupla' other posts on the same subject, namely, the reprehensible conduct of Mt Gambier City Councillor Josh Lynagh on a third party's webpage...and yes, I'm clearly still playing catch-up with my own stuff and yes I do apologise that I've gone pretty-much nowhere with the multiple associated 'blogs' that I've set-up...it's kinda' hard to explain, but I'm still tryin' and still very-much achievin', but I'm also rather enjoying spending whole days not even thinking about this 'ere blog...(say it isn't so!-Ed)...and spending time 'making shizzle' (models and dioramas), heaps of gardening, gettin' to gym, walking, etc, etc...***

Howdy USofA, UK, Ireland, and Brazil, and to y'all else, welcome to TMGI...last coupla' posts we've been dismantling the crassly corrupted political campaign of Mt Gambier City Council's Cr Josh Lynagh...initially I thought that he was just stooging-it-up on behalf of the rankly corrupt MGCC, racing from one Social Media site to another and back again, furiously hosing-down any criticism of MGCC and mocking 'Criticisers', etc, all whilst spewing-forth rankly corrupted pro-MGCC propaganda, but Cr Josh is also clearly doing this as part of his own personal political ambitions...(oh dear gourd save us-Ed)...well indeed, from a pathetically inept and inconsequential Councillor to what, Mayor? Member for Mt Gambier? it's a sick joke...

On Wednesday 8th November 2017 Cr Lynagh went onto local History/Family Memories webpage Growing Up In The Mount, and unambiguously attacked me and this 'ere blog, and when he was losing that 'discussion' he raised the 'Paedophilia' issue, a specific reference to the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...this is a reprehensible act from a low coward who wouldn't dare to say/do this to my face...it is deeply cynical and absolutely pathetic behaviour...how is it appropriate for a serving MGCC Councillor to go onto a third party's 'Happy Memories' webpage and engage in such a rancid political attack, particularly using/raising the issue of Paedophilia?...(well it's not!-Ed)...well exactly, and I have lodged official complaints...(don't hold your breath-Ed)...I ain't...

***and of course these 'official complaints' have generated the hilarious response where-in the Local Government Association and the Local Government Minister, Geoff Brock, have both responded by directing me to the only person supposedly accountable under LGA Legislation for reviewing and addressing Councillors' conduct, Council employee MGCC CEO Mark McShane...(but he's one of the people who's been harassing you at MGCC meetings, eg, the 2013/14 Budget Meetings and the extraordinary September 2017 'Ambush' right outside Council's Full Meeting, with abuse/harassment/threats by MGCC Councillors Frank Morello, Mark Lovett, MGCC 'Manager' Nick Serle, and good ol' Mark himself!-Ed)...indeed, including his barely-veiled threat to make trouble for me at my gym, where he has also approached and hassled me only weeks before...still waiting for Mighty Marky Mark McShenanigans to provide me his final report on himself...back to the post...***

I did not see the original discussion, but by crikey I've heard all about it since, from multiple sources...Cr Lynagh was getting flogged by a well-structured argument, and repeatedly tried to de-rail the discussion with ludicrous hyperbole, deliberately ignoring all of the points raised that proved what a liar he is, and openly attacking me and/or this 'ere blog...    

I've skipped between posts a bit mid-discussion, so please read the 2 or 3 most recent TMGI posts (***from November 2017, cheers***) if you're a bit lost, but the issues quickly reveal themselves...here we're in a discourse re MGCC's expenditure on 'The Arts', as my mate Tony Burch argues on behalf of MGCC...please note that I've deliberately left Tony's name there for exactly that reason, but have removed other's names, and there's a coupla' late Comments not added here...please note dear availees that following my original posts, it has been repeatedly alleged to me that Tony Burch is in a relationship with a senior MGCC employee...(***so here now is the remainder of that 'discussion'***)...

- Person's Comment, Name Removed - I still believe that the first thing council should've done up was the railway station

- C - I remember taking parcels there in the 60’s 70’s to go by train to wherever they had to go..IMO it should be restored to a local rail museum

- C - Whatever the outcome, Yes a little maintenance like cleaning guttering etc tries to stop further water damage. Asbestos should not be used as an excuse for not doing anything............ we have experts to handle asbestos in buildings etc.

Josh Lynagh I don't believe it's been used as an excuse at all. The reality is, restoring the building is going to be a huge job, due to a number of issues.

*me:...yet another outright lie, MGCC have repeatedly used Asbestos contamination as part of the excuse for failing/refusing to act re the Old Station, but recently officially blocked that Fund My Neighbourhood application for $100,000 specifically for Asbestos removal...MGCC aren't doing even basic maintenance on the Station...what are the "number of issues" Josh, and why haven't you identified even one?...(because there is only one, that MGCC are still pursuing the Rail Lands Retail Agenda-Ed)...well exactly...and at MGCC's Full Meeting in September 2017, it was stated that the whole restoration project would cost "$500,000"...*

- C - Apologies Josh; nothing relating to your comments just recall seeing asbestos mentioned in other post.

- C - funny, old mount gambier hospital stood as an eyesore for how long, here is a building that does deserve keeping, and they cannot wait to knock it down, must be local logic ?????????????????????????????

- C - Its NOT being knocked down.

- C - Josh Lynagh I feel like you didn't read the post at all.
- C - little bit of history, used to sell footy budgets for east gambier around the pubs and one place I used to enjoy going to was the RSL above the main corner, the items on display were incredible, many years later went to the new RSL and had a look around the museum, maybe 10% of what they used to have was on display, asked where everything else was and told in storage, what a waste.

Josh Lynagh I'm so confused. Are you perhaps on the wrong post?

*me:...and there's Cr Josh doing his deliberate faux-ignorance whilst simultaneously talking-down at the Commentor...he knows exactly what is being said, and it is perfectly reasonable and accurate, yet he mocks it with 'didn't read the post', and 'on the wrong post'...('I feel like you didn't read the post at all'-Ed)...well exactly, belittling the person by saying that their opinion/statement is ignorant and uninformed, and/or they're just too stupid to understand even when it's explained to them in...and yet another perfectly rational use is basically ignored...the next bit is just 'discussion' but it's relevant so I've left it in* 

 - C - not at all, could be a use for an empty building

 Josh Lynagh You do get that the Railway station isn't being demolished though right?

- C - yes I read the whole post, but the council does not know what to use it for, hence my suggestion

Tony Burch Who said it was going to be knocked down?

- C - Post! horse some people might say.

- C - It is a well known fact that some people go off half cocked to use an old fashioned expression without reading a post correctly

- C - all the comments need to be read as well, as they seem to veer off course willy nilly, as I said previously its like chinese whispers.

- C - It all started when (name removed*) told us that the Railway buiding is being demolished, which it is not & then said that her sister is a taxi driver so she hears rumours, all fairly straight forward...Now Josh has started this post to explain that the building is not being demolished & someone is horrified because the buidling is going to be demolished. So obviuolsy they did not even read Josh's post at the start of this post.
- C - Oh, I say! Have to agree.

- C - So why are they knocking it down ???
 - C - I actually did read all the comments thats why I commented what I did.

Josh Lynagh (name removed) I feel like (name removed) was just agreeing with you with her comment.

- C - she told the story again briefly, thats why I commented

Josh Lynagh I don't think she said you didn't read the comments though..

- C - come on OUT WITH IT !!!!!! do you people really work for the F.B.I. hahahahahah hahahahah hahahahah hahahah
- C -The old railway station is heritage listed

- C - That’s a good start

- C - In that case my understanding is that there are strict rules about what can & cannot be done & demolishing it is not usually allowed, However someone may know more about it than me ?

- C - typical country town syndrome, but what about the fact that heaps of the RSL history is in storage, and may never see the light of day again, my grandfather father mother fought for what freedom we have now, is that just to be forgotten into time, and all local ?

- C - but not only my family, what about yours ?

- C - Perhaps we can put a tank at the old station as it needs a new home
- C - A cafe with great coffee, icecream shop all displaying & selling of local artworks would be great. Hot drinks in winter, cold drinks & icecream in the 2 weeks of summer.

Josh Lynagh We do have a cafe there :)

- C - Yes & it is very popular, recently when we had a warm Sunday there were 15 people outside the platform cafe.

- C - Wouldn't be hard to shift that one, perhaps to the Valley Lake one is need there, no shopping centre a few hundred metres away there, no nearby Bakery there.

Josh Lynagh That really comes down to private businesses.

*me...another deliberate deceit, Josh knows full well that the 'Cafe In A Container' sitting exposed to the weather, wanted to be in the Old Station or at least at that end of the platform, and MGCC have refused multiple other applications to use the Old Station, eg, for a museum* 
  

- C - Just clean it up as an eyesore Josh. Get them to pressure clean it till a final decision is made pls.

- C - Please also pressure clean the Main Corner.

Josh Lynagh What part exactly?

- C -This part.

*me...here he's done it yet again, Cr Josh completely ignores the request re the Old Station, and skips to the exact same request re the Main Corner...he is also clearly acting as a Councillor, discussing a series of Council issues...and just this weekend, there's the Main Corner getting steam-cleaned whilst the Old Station still sits there just rotting...(nooo?-Ed)...oh yeah, and there's Cr Josh 'recently' all over Social Media like a rash, openly acting as a MGCC Councillor defending MGCC, including doing his li'l 'haha' shizzle about a 'rumour' that he's gunna' be the Labor candidate, with a completely disingenuous statement about 'not being interested in Party Politics'...*

Josh Lynagh I've contacted someone at Council and see how I go getting an answer. I don't think it's as simple as just pressure cleaning though.

- C - Thank you Josh, . I was very pleased to see the little boat outside Lady Nelson get cleaned some time back, it was very black. Well done to whoever cleaned it.

- C - why wasn't the stonework sealed when built? Also Josh can you contact someone in Council regarding the upkeep of medium strips Penola Road & Jubilee Highway, or are they intending to leave and cut and bale hay. As present state does not enhance Mount Gambier to the tourist trade.

Josh Lynagh Not sure. And already have. I believe the roads are State, but Council maintain the median strips, so long as they're within our council area. Will find out :)

- C - He said, she said.... I prefer my council news to be a bit more.... wait for it..... Streamlyned. :)

*me...and again again, Cr Josh completely ignores the Old Station questions, then when the chat turns to MGCC's rank incompetence re the Main Corner, Josh skips that too and instead goes to what he wants to discuss*

- C - I can understand how people could get the idea that the station could be demolished. The council has demolished three buildings recently because they have been uneconomical to repair or didn't have a good use for. The station building has been empty and unloved for far too long. Council as the owner of this building should be at least maintaining the outside of the building unless they want it to degrade to such an extent that it becomes uneconomic to repair. Being empty brings in no income so why not give a community group access to run a coffee shop gallery etc. with the right to evict at short notice if a permanent solution is found. At least the building would be in use and would give something else to do at the rail lands. I know of at least one proposal and they were prepared to do some basic refurbishment of the interior at no cost to council.

Josh Lynagh The post specifically said that someone they know was at the meeting and hear that we decided it was happening, which was completely false. It wasn't just that someone thought maybe it might happen - the false details given were fairly specific. Definitely interested to hear any ideas, I know there is some discussion at the moment too. I agree, the outside should be maintained at least
 - C - totally agree.

*me...the only person giving specifically completely "false details" is the one person who also claims to know and be providing 'the facts', Cr Lynagh...ironically, it is 'the fact' that Josh knows exactly what MGCC have and/or haven't done re the Rail Lands and the RLRA, because he's had it explained to him more than once, including by moi...when MGCC/Cr Lynagh went onto GUITM and engaged in this deceit he knew exactly what the RLRA 'plan' is, massive Retail/Commercial Expansion onto the Rail Lands and how that plan renders the Old Rail Station as not just redundant but 'in the way'...  

Tomorrow: Resuming Normal Programming...('Normal'?!-Ed)

Back to the usual menu of dissecting MGCC's rankly pro-paedophile, Nepotistic corruption...(on every day with an 'R' in it-Ed)...whaaa?...(MGCC are corrupt on every day with an 'R' in it, it's an old joke-Ed)...not sure I get it mate...(Mondray, Tuesdray, Wednesdray...get it now?-Ed)...yes sir, thankyou sir... 

***not my best post I know, but hey, we've got to get through all this stuff to appropriately conclude some of these issues, and the next post sitting in 'Drafts' is a raging doozy on this exact same topic, Cr Lynagh and this outrageous 'Politicking' on social media, particularly in defense of Mt Gambier City Council...

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