Because Paul posted his comments on an public forum and so is open to having them challenged in the same forum.

I think Shaman raises some good questions and what worries me about the councillor's original posting was that it sort of suggested that he didn't have any policies and was going to ask his party to discuss the problems in committee. I'd have thought with the election only being 3 months ago he might have had a manifesto that he could have quoted from.