Moscoe: “I think city councillor is the most interesting, exciting, wonderful job in the world. You can say outrageous things, people write them down and print them in the newspapers, and then the television stations chase you.”

Howard Moscoe: a retrospective of antics
In honour of the departure of our longest-serving Councillor I give you this link of  some of Mr Moscoe's antics.   The tone of the article may be a little more positive than we'd probably like, but put in the spin cycle and see how it comes out.

I think the above quote however does point to the fame, money and media-hungry spirit of our City politicians.  Perhaps Mr Moscoe came to forget that he had been elected to represent his constituents and not auditioning for Last Comic Standing c 2003.

Moscoe calls it quits

Our longest-serving City politician announced today that he won't be running again this year.  Sweet relief for Ward 15 candidates.  Now the real fight begins...