Former Labor candidate for the Seat of Cootamundra Charlie Sheahan with a signed pledge from Labor leader Luke Foley outlining Labor’s plans to allow pelbiscites if they win power at the 2019 State election. He is pictured at the Gundagai Services Club meeting which was held on February 2 and attended by close to 400 people. The former Cootamundra candidate came out swinging after Tuesday’s announcement regarding forced Council Amalgamations. Sheahan said “If Barilaro and Hodgkinson really cared about our communitites they would have given them their Councils back. You only have to look at what has happened in smaller towns who have been merged with larger Shires in the area. History shows the smaller town loses out and often turns in to a ghost town. The Nationals need to go They are nothing but lap dogs to the liberal party.”