Hot Rodders here to stay

The council has reneged on its undertaking to purchase a large (Government funded) marquee to help the Hot Rod Club stage its annual event. I wonder why?

This won’t please the backwards-thinking stick-in-the-muds in the town of Bright (like Lee Rosser & Nick Malkin) but, despite the Alpine council reneging on its promise to purchase a marquee, the Northern Suburbs Hot Rod Club is definitely returning next year to hold the 20th anniversary of the enormously popular Bright Rod Run. And it looks like they’ll keep coming back in the forseeable future.

Club President Ray McDonald has made that clear and good on him, we need this event. In fact the whole town needs this event, even those who don’t want it! Even Lee & Nick need this event, if they want to keep living in a thriving tourist town that offers a lifestyle unmatched by other similar sized towns, that is. Maybe they don’t? Well then, pack your bags and go boys, because the Hot Rodders are coming back, despite what you’ve said elsewhere. From Lee’s ‘blog of shame’:

All rodders DO A U-TURN BEFORE YOU GET TO BRIGHT and go back where you came from, we don’t want you taking over our town, go somewhere else! … Try Moe, very nice at this time of the year. As Johnny Howard said: “we will decide who comes to this town and the circumstances in which they come” 

Charming stuff Lee, it really beggars belief that some people – like you - actually seem to think they have a right to say who is allowed to visit this town and who is not. Well, here’s some news for you, and for anyone else who agrees with your narrow-minded view of the world:

• This is Australia.
• No one – repeat, NO ONE - needs your permission to visit Bright.
• The Hot Rodders don’t need your permission (or anyone else’s) to come here.
• They are free to hold their event in Bright with or without council or town consent.
• It is entirely their decision, no matter how much you carry on about it.
• You simply cannot stand at the entrance to the town and turn people away.

Why? Well, as hard as this might be for you to grasp: You don’t own Bright – it belongs to every one!

As for the Alpine council and its failure to honour the undertaking it gave earlier this year to purchase a large (Government funded) marquee for hiring out to the Rodders at a reduced rate, I’m pretty sure that the decision not to proceed would have come from our equally backwards-thinking group of councillors, some of whom would be more suited joining their retrograde, hillbilly mates at Save Bright.

And the sad part is, that if the council were to buy this marquee (with a FREE Govt grant) they’d also be able to hire it out for a whole range of events, not just the Rodders. And that would bring in more visitors and make more money for the shire and everyone in it.

Oh, but the councillors don’t like tourists and would rather they (and the Rodders) just stayed away. Unbelievable.

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