{"id":51474,"date":"2021-03-31T09:13:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T22:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=51474"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T22:43:43","slug":"penbo-blasts-city-councillors-over-plan-to-throw-a-party-for-departing-colleague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/penbo-blasts-city-councillors-over-plan-to-throw-a-party-for-departing-colleague\/","title":{"rendered":"Penbo Blasts City Councillors Over Plan To Throw A Party For Departing Colleague"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David Penberthy is asking \u201cwhat planet do these people live on?\u201d after he obtained emails from Adelaide City Councillors requesting a hosted farewell for a colleague who is quitting council for the second time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/david-and-will\/penbo-blasts-city-councillors-over-plan-to-throw-a\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Penbo Blasts City Councillors Over Plan To Throw A Party For Departing Colleague\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Councillor Robert Simms this week resigned in order to move to the state Upper House, after previously quitting the council in 2015 to join the Senate. <strong>(SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/sa-greens-mp-is-chucking-it-in-reports-david-penberthy\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark Parnell Departs Politics<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Penbo revealed during Wednesday\u2019s Breaking @ 8 segment that on top of the $140,000 by-election forced by Mr Simms\u2019 move, councillors also want a \u201cratepayer funded food and wine night in his honour\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI find this so extraordinary,\u201d Penbo said. \u201cIt just shows to me what a tin ear these people have got for the way they are regarded by the public and it also shows how completely remote they are in terms of the economic impact that Covid has had on the city\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cWhat planet do these people live on? Unless they\u2019re all going to pay their own way. But that\u2019s not even in their thinking \u2013 it wouldn\u2019t be\u2026 they\u2019re talking about the council itself hosting a reception with food and wine in honour of a man who\u2019s basically told the people who voted for him that he\u2019s &#8211; for the second time &#8211; legging it because he\u2019s got a better offer and the ratepayers have got to pay for the by-election and on top of that the gala farewell\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>FIVEAA FACEBOOK LIVE STREAM &#8211; WEDNESDAY 31 MARCH &#8211; WATCH HERE:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F273425320919087%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David Penberthy is asking \u201cwhat planet do these people live on?\u201d after he obtained emails from Adelaide City Councillors requesting a hosted farewell for a colleague who is quitting council for the second time. LISTEN HERE: Councillor Robert Simms this week resigned in order to move to the state Upper House, after previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":51475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-51474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Penbo Blasts City Councillors Over Plan To Throw A Party For Departing Colleague - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/penbo-blasts-city-councillors-over-plan-to-throw-a-party-for-departing-colleague\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Penbo Blasts City Councillors Over Plan To Throw A Party For Departing Colleague\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David Penberthy is asking \u201cwhat planet do these people live on?\u201d after he obtained emails from Adelaide City Councillors requesting a hosted farewell for a colleague who is quitting council for the second time. 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