BREAKING NEWS: Mayor Mullet aka Jenny Hill comes a spectacular gutser - Townsville City Council CEO Ray Burton has been cleared by the Crime and Miscounduct Commission of any wrong doing alleged by The Mullet.

The Magpie bets the Mullet is stunned. Let's see if The Daily Astonisher has kept up.

A special mini-Magpie here at townsvillemagpie.com.au 

Late this afternoon, (Tues Dec 18) the CMC advised the Townsville City Council that it found that there was no evidence that Townsvile City Council CEO Ray Burton had breached any protocols or had acted unlawfully as alleged by the Mayor Jenny Hill.

The details of the finding are still be be released to the public ( this will keep you back late, Simpo), but this leaves both protagonists in interesting positions.

Hill's initial complaint - that Mr Burton had withheld from her a report that would recommend that she sack more than 250 council staff, (that was never going to happen, it would never be countenanced even by her populist, knuckle-dragging boosters) Her sugggestion that this idea was even an option was laughable. It was just simply desperate and despicable politics at a level where she herself,  so deeply embededd in dirty self-seeking Labor politics, , insisted would allow her to find the savings to implement her ruinous election promises of a rate freeze and water costs rebate. 

Sack people to make you look good?? Sure you're not a closet LNP member, Jenny? 

 Now life gets interesting.

As a mere lay peson with the law, The 'Pie is of the mind that if the council CEO so chooses, he could have her on toast for defamation and professional slander. She made the claim of improper conduct by Burton public not just to her Bulletin lapdog Anthony Simpleton, but also on TV and radio.  

Whoopisie daisy, darlin'.

Your  complaint,  (that Ray Burton himself referred to the CMC) was found to be goundless. The CMC, in basic terms,  claimed that the council boss did nothing wrong and didn't withhold information from you.  Your spiteful and dumb complaint against Townsville Council CEO Ray Burton has been dismissed for what it was - crap (not actually their words, but that's what it meant - crap of the lowest political kind).

The Magpe will be eagerly awaiting the next definitive statement  from someone - not beacase Ray Burton was right, but because the Mayor of our city was wrong. So was the Townsville Bulletin  predicably wrong, demanding in an editorial that whether he was right or wrong, Burton had to go because Jenny was the voters' choice. 

Someone should go - either in Walker Street or in Ogden Street.  Or both.

How you handle this one, Mr Burton, is up to you - let's face it, you don't need the almost guaranteed money - maybe you just care about the city and just want to get on with it.

How you, Lachlan Heywood, Astonisher editor, handle it - an apology would be nice - no one cares, because no one takes any notice of you.  

Mrs Hill, how YOU handle it is up to you - and that will be the measure of you.