‘Completely out of touch’: Cockburn mayor passes the buck in $100,000 junket furor
Mayor of Cockburn Logan Howlett has delivered a decidedly outrageous response to claims the City was wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on international junkets to music festivals.
Gary Adshead has been trying to understand how and why a proposed trip to Croatia for three councilors and the mayor himself was almost passed, despite the socioeconomic issues faced by residents.
“You call it a junket; I would totally disagree with that. We have multiple long-standing relationships with sister cities, and this is a part of that,” Mr Howlett said.
Mr Adshead could barely contain his frustration at Mr Howlett’s response, which seemingly admitte0d no fault in the plan.
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