Residents of Port Phillip (RoPP) lobby group has started it’s campaign for the Council elections with a call for cash from supporters.
Pledging to drive politics out of Council, the cash drive offers silver, gold and platinum packages to prospective donors.
Included in the benefits of the higher packages is access to RoPP sub-committees and executive meetings.
The Platinum Package ($2K+ pa) includes “Invitation to any ROPP executive meeting to present on a topic.”
See full details at RoPP site
Two RoPP councillors were elected in 2020
In the 2020 Council elections, ROPP ran an election campaign for three independent candidates and two were elected: Cr Rhonda Clark (left) and Cr Christina Sirakoff.
Campaign donation reports show that RoPP was the biggest single donor to the 2020 council elections with $38,253 declared.
The ALP declared $11,132 and the Greens declared $16,744. The ALP’s Robbie Nyaguy declared $12,000 to his own campaign.
See all declared donations
RoPP right of reply
We offered Campbell Spence (RoPP President) an opportunity to comment, this is his reply in full:
“Thank you for the opportunity to comment on your article. Your headline should read ROPP offers the community an innovative way to save thousands of dollars for household costs. Can anyone else match it?
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We are very proud to be offering residents discounts on major whole household costs during a cost of living crisis.
ROPP are a community organisation and we’re running candidates for the benefit of the community and as such need to raise funds . We have enabled a way for our community to save thousands of dollars per annum on household cost.
Your comment about “cash for access” is misleading because ROPP listens to ALL of our constituents – we will be holding public meetings specifically to hear feedback from residents in relation to their expectations of councillors!
Big donors will be invited to our committee meetings, but they have no more influence over the committee than any other resident!“
