Everything points to Nick Aroney being the Liberals' frantic 11th-hour selection to run in Kogarah (Leader, December 9).
He doesn't live in the electorate or represent a council ward in the electorate; he sits mute in council where his cupboard of achievement remains empty.
To imply Cherie Burton has taken this area for granted is offensive and an insult to the people who elected her over the past four successive elections.
As Kogarah MP, Cherie Burton delivered more than $2 billion worth of infrastructure to Kogarah electorate during her tenure. A few of her many accomplishments are money for improvements to St George Hospital, securing funds for the new state-of-the art emergency department that now stands in Gray Street, new buildings for schools and the complete refurbishment of Jubilee Oval.
The Liberal state government has sucked services out of Kogarah since 2011, including peak train services reduced by half, free shuttle bus abandoned and savage school funding cuts.
The Liberals have never shown any interest in building a multi-storey parking station on the present TAFE car park site. It was only after Chris Minns, the ALP candidate for Kogarah, articulated this vision did the Liberals start chewing their fingernails.
What will Nick Aroney advocate for? Is he going to be like his brethren in Canberra and heartlessly attack the most vulnerable in our community? Is his campaign message going to be based on feeble negatives and boring, overworked refrains snatched from the rag bag of tired and tiresome cliches of the discredited O'Farrell government?
One would think the Baird government would give him something a bit better than a rehash.
David Dawson, Bexley