Definition of "conflict of interest": A situation occurring when an official's private interests may benefit from his or her public actions.

Anyone that doesn't get this concept should be embarrassed!!! It's never been about wether we like Joe or if his company does a good job (my experience is they do). It's about ethics and what's right and what's wrong. This is wrong and will always be wrong!

I am all for a good exchange of views and opinions. However, when you get people using soppy and obvious "nom de plumes" like San deboots, you obviously cannot take them seriously. ~In any case, why would somebody use a false name unless they have something to hide?

In my humble opinion, San deBoots is Joe Gala writing under an assumed name, because he does not want to be seen to be defending himself! I would much prefer Joe to write here under his own name.

I on the other hand do not think Mr Gala needs to defend anything. He has always fully revealed his posible conflict. I have asked and he does not see the ballots nor does he have any part in counting them. I agree this website is counter productive to say the least and it or most of the coments are comical because of theri increbidle misinformation.

These recent spate of entries with clearly false names is getting out of hand.

I would ask the webmaster to delete them and not allow any entries from people that do not contain an email address.