Sunday, September 19, 2010

DIARY OF A CAMPAIGNER: DAY29 WAVING IN THE RAIN

DAY TWENTY-NINE:
Saturday 18 September 2010
The ballot papers are rolling into the letter boxes. There are 23 days until ‘D’ day decision day on 09th October.

It was a relatively slow day campaigning, thanks to the wet and rainy, blustery and cold day. C&R team mate Sarah Turner and I walked through St Lukes Mall handing out flyers and chatting to people. We actually managed to distribute quite a bit of information. Although the voting papers started arriving in letter boxes yesterday, there’s still quite a bit of confusion about how to vote ie: how many to vote for, who are the DHB candidates and does Albert Eden Roskill have a Licensing Trust? Of course Sarah and I are more than happy to talk people through the process.

We then decided to wave at cars. So we took our hoardings and plonked ourselves in the middle of St Lukes Rd. Well when I say ‘middle’ I mean on an island – safely. It’s a great location not only do you get the traffic running north and south but it’s also a pedestrian thorough way between the Mall and the Mega Centre. So we got to ask people for support as well as wave at the cars – two birds with one stone. We had to flag the wave after an hour and a half though because we got drenched neither of us had raincoats. Sarah and I really enjoy waving at cars we think its magnificent for Party branding and keeping the profile visible. In that short space of time we can get the brand visibility in front of about 1000 people, not bad.

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