Saturday, May 19, 2007
A Very Close Race!
Things are really heating up in Riel! The race is really close and we are working very hard to get out our vote and persuade our undecided voters that it really is time for a change! We are ready to make Manitoba the "have" province it should be!
Friday we began the day with a fabulous announcement at the Forks! Called "The Point" it involves converting a section of Point Douglas into a cool urban centre focussed on young adults. Check out our website at www.pcmanitoba.com for more information!
After a very full day, Michelle, Rosy and I headed off to Jose (Boy) Thomas's party. Boy is our candidate for Wellington. We unfortunately didn't get there until 10 but we were greeted warmly by everyone and had a couple of hours of dancing and some delcious food! It was a really good time - as it always is when we attend an event at Pompagna!
My mom came down to drive our big truck and took Helen out for some flyering. (The pic at left is l to r: Joan, Helen and my mom, Joan). People were coming and going all day, dropping off donations, picking up polls for delivery, entering data, installing signs! My son John worked really hard today installing signs and when he came back in he informed me he received his marks and has a 3.94 average and is on the Dean's Honour Roll. Ask me if I'm a proud mama!
This afternoon Hugh McFadyen joined us for more door knocking. That was great! We took him to undecided's in an area that has given us challenges in the past and the results were fantastic. People were able to chat one on one with Hugh and ask him directly for clarification of some of their concerns and we found the vast majority committed to vote for us! I just wish we had enough time left in the campaign to talk to every one!
Friday we began the day with a fabulous announcement at the Forks! Called "The Point" it involves converting a section of Point Douglas into a cool urban centre focussed on young adults. Check out our website at www.pcmanitoba.com for more information!Between the afternoon door-knock and the evening session we had a burma shave from 4 until 5:30 on St. Anne's and Bishop Grandin. What fun! My daughter Katie and her friend and my neice Sharon all joined us - and really enjoyed themselves. They've never done this before so they were a little apprehensive but they sure caught on fast and all of them said they had a great time! Of course our number one volunteer Nancy was there - the girl is unbelievable - door knocking, flyering, burma shaving - she does it all! It really is great to get the thumb's up, the waves, the honking, 
the smiles - and because of the heavy traffic we even got to answer a few questions! It sure does recharge the batteries!
the smiles - and because of the heavy traffic we even got to answer a few questions! It sure does recharge the batteries!The door-knocking went great today, with lots of support. We are really seeing the undecided voters making their decisions and we are very happy that they seem to be favouring us! Tonite we had two full teams totally nine 
people out. I was really overcome when I returned to the office to see it packed full of people - there were about thirty all working hard phoning, preparing mail drops, doing data entry, recuperating from their flyering and door-knocking. We even had a Sri Lankan couple bring us some delicious food (I heard it was delicious anyway - there was none left when I got in :).
people out. I was really overcome when I returned to the office to see it packed full of people - there were about thirty all working hard phoning, preparing mail drops, doing data entry, recuperating from their flyering and door-knocking. We even had a Sri Lankan couple bring us some delicious food (I heard it was delicious anyway - there was none left when I got in :).
After a very full day, Michelle, Rosy and I headed off to Jose (Boy) Thomas's party. Boy is our candidate for Wellington. We unfortunately didn't get there until 10 but we were greeted warmly by everyone and had a couple of hours of dancing and some delcious food! It was a really good time - as it always is when we attend an event at Pompagna!Saturday:
Today was the first day of our weekend drop. By the time I got to the office with my friend Joan, Mick already had nine people out delivering flyers. What a great team - we covered almost half the constituency and that's great - tomorrow and Monday will be much easier now! We spent the bulk of the day phoning people and answering questions and e-mails.
My mom came down to drive our big truck and took Helen out for some flyering. (The pic at left is l to r: Joan, Helen and my mom, Joan). People were coming and going all day, dropping off donations, picking up polls for delivery, entering data, installing signs! My son John worked really hard today installing signs and when he came back in he informed me he received his marks and has a 3.94 average and is on the Dean's Honour Roll. Ask me if I'm a proud mama!
This afternoon Hugh McFadyen joined us for more door knocking. That was great! We took him to undecided's in an area that has given us challenges in the past and the results were fantastic. People were able to chat one on one with Hugh and ask him directly for clarification of some of their concerns and we found the vast majority committed to vote for us! I just wish we had enough time left in the campaign to talk to every one!This campaign period is a really special time that I will always cherish. It is astounding how many people come out to help. We have our core team that we count on every day, and then we have the many, many people who come out once or twice who make such a big difference to the cause! It's amazing how two hours here and four hours there translates into a successful campaign!
To all of you who have come out to help - thank you from the bottom of my heart! And to those of you who haven't made it out yet - come try it - you'll see! There's just no way to have more fun! Honest! :)
posted by Trudy Turner | 11:23 PM
2 Comments:
- dcb@modernearth.net said...
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What a marathon you've been running - good luck tonight!
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it is me shirley out in minto again....
congratulations trudy! what an excellent campaign you run! so incredibly visible- your blog, your HUGE signs, your vehicles, your doorknocking... incredible!
thank you again for running... thank you for taking the time to give us choice, to risk yourself, to keeping candidates honest and to ensuring that democracy works...
you have done an incredible job and i want to thank you for all your work... democracy only gets better when we all work towards it....
with all sincerity, enjoy the downtime... campaigns are so nuts!
shirley
minto
shirleyhaynes@shaw.ca
ps, cbc has you down as "stronly challen"ing christines bid for re election
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitobavotes2007/story/2007/05/22/mbv-cabinet.html
