Veronica and I rolled into the Elizabeth May campaign office on Saturday November 11 and hit the ground running in our efforts to assist for the afternoon. The campaign office was buzzing with volunteers from right across the country, from Montreal to Victoria.
Elizabeth had arrived earlier in the morning from Toronto fresh from the Matthew Day fundraising event which I had wanted to be at but wasn’t able to go. It sounds like it was good event for him.
I spent the next 4 hours with Elizabeth May and two other volunteers campaigning in 3 different neighbourhoods that were on a list for her to cover. Little time to talk about how she was doing but I did get the chance to mention our EDA meeting on December 5th.
A woman from London named Kelly and I walked ahead meeting people at the door and then Elizabeth would seal the deal with her charm and persuasive conversations about why people should vote Green. We were able to post signs, get some polling information and did a brief stint of mainstreeting with honks of support.
The afternoon campaign session took us right into the heart of areas that had both Liberal and NDP support including a chance meeting with the Liberal candidate Glen Pearson. His team had been in the same neighbourhood only a couple of hours prior to us. He pulled over during the mainstreet event to say hi and things were kept in good form and even got a picture of the two rival candidates.
Veronica was put on the phone canvass and for a women that just became a Green Party member, this turned out to be a successful first campaign event with over 200 calls made on behalf of Elizabeth May. This allowed her to meet and greet with various people in the office.
The person who we really wanted to highlight from our time in London was Sharon Labchuk and her efforts at coordinating events in the busy campaign office.
Elizabeth had arrived earlier in the morning from Toronto fresh from the Matthew Day fundraising event which I had wanted to be at but wasn’t able to go. It sounds like it was good event for him.
I spent the next 4 hours with Elizabeth May and two other volunteers campaigning in 3 different neighbourhoods that were on a list for her to cover. Little time to talk about how she was doing but I did get the chance to mention our EDA meeting on December 5th.
A woman from London named Kelly and I walked ahead meeting people at the door and then Elizabeth would seal the deal with her charm and persuasive conversations about why people should vote Green. We were able to post signs, get some polling information and did a brief stint of mainstreeting with honks of support.
The afternoon campaign session took us right into the heart of areas that had both Liberal and NDP support including a chance meeting with the Liberal candidate Glen Pearson. His team had been in the same neighbourhood only a couple of hours prior to us. He pulled over during the mainstreet event to say hi and things were kept in good form and even got a picture of the two rival candidates.
Veronica was put on the phone canvass and for a women that just became a Green Party member, this turned out to be a successful first campaign event with over 200 calls made on behalf of Elizabeth May. This allowed her to meet and greet with various people in the office.
The person who we really wanted to highlight from our time in London was Sharon Labchuk and her efforts at coordinating events in the busy campaign office.
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