Friday, August 21, 2009

Bringing the message to the people

Amazing, really. On Sunday, I had some material for a Focus leaflet. Kathy, our County Group Leader helped me convert it into the finished product and, by Monday, with some help from Lib Dem Voice, I had sent it to the printer, the Chair of Ipswich Liberal Democrats, Tim Lockington. Today, it was ready, and so Ros and I drove to Ipswich to collect 1200 leaflets, the amount we thought would be needed.

But where to deliver them? Cue 'Election Maps', a service provided by the Ordnance Survey for political campaigners, which allows you to trace the boundaries of your ward and print out street maps of different bits of it. Meanwhile, Wendy Marchant, one of our district councillors in Needham Market, was putting word out across mid-Suffolk to obtain the electoral register for the ward and, by early evening, I had a full set of canvass cards.

So, a delivering we went, Ros driving. We delivered more than 40% of the ward, explored some of the outlying areas, pinpointed most of the outlying houses on the northern edge and designed some walks for the future.

Tomorrow, we'll be delivering more of the ward, and hope to have the job finished by the end of the month.

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