It was Dr Samuel Johnson who said 'Depend on it sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

Substitute hanging for ‘losing seat on the council' and it might convince Larry Baldock and his ilk, who may be contemplating shafting Tauranga ratepayers and ignoring the result of the museum referendum, that there is a price to pay.

Ratepayers are under an intolerable burden with never-ending rate increases, choked roads and, to add insult to injury, we have some councillors hell-bent on putting more debt on our shoulders over the Taj Mahal of a museum. Enough is enough.

D Medhurst, Otumoetai.