Independent now has ‘surprise’ backing of Liberal elder statesman and departing Hornsby mayor Philip Ruddock
While many of his former colleagues were furious this week, local councillor Nathan Tilbury has been feeling pretty happy as a formal Liberal.After three terms on Hornsby Shire council, he says he’d already decided to run as an independent at the next election on 14 September.
“Philip and I are very, very different people, but we do share a passion for the bushland shire for doing what we think is right for the community.”It could have been fate intervening – the Liberals missed the noon Wednesday deadline to submit their own paperwork and the administrative fiasco cost one of its candidates for Hornsby their spot on the ballot paper.
Tilbury says he had been unhappy with the Liberals’ direction in Hornsby for a while. Development has become a sore point among residents and councillors in the local government area on Sydney’s northern fringe. “It’s not about me … I have made a judgment call not to run separately as an independent. I have made a judgment call to back my deputy .”
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