Cr Clarke told the Gold Coast Council meeting: "If Ipswich has won it, how prestigious can it be?"
He has described Ipswich residents as "lower-class leftovers" who couldn't afford to live in Brisbane or the Gold Coast.
Goodna Councillor Paul Tully, Queensland's longest-serving City Councillor, has slammed Cr Clarke saying his on-going personal denigration of Ipswich was a scandalous attack on the city's 160,000 residents.
Cr Tully has invited the Gold Coast Mayor to Goodna's historic Royal Mail hotel to explain his views to the local residents whom he describes as the "salt of the earth".
"I challenge Ron Clarke to come to Goodna any Friday afternoon and repeat his comments that we are lower-class leftovers.
"He wouldn't have the guts to turn up knowing his much-needed pugilistic skills were well-short of his former athletic ability.
"He would be tarred and feathered before he could get back to his mayoral limousine.
"The 140-year old Royal Mail hotel is where political arguments are still settled in the old fashioned way as they were in the days when the Cobb & Cobb coaches stopped at the front door.
"The mayoralty has gone to Ron Clarke's head as he condemns and criticises the residents of Queensland's oldest provincial city."
Cr Tully said the people of the Gold Coast should give Ron Clarke the Royal Order of the Boot.
"He has gone too far this time.
"Ron Clarke should stick with his toffee-nosed, chardonnay-drinking, white shoe brigade mates on the Gold Coast before he criticises another city.
"I doubt he has ever been to Ipswich but I can assure him of a civic reception he will never forget if takes up my challenge to explain himself at the Royal Mail Hotel at Goodna," Cr Tully said.
19 August 2009
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PAUL TULLY: paul@tully.org.au
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