Selection Convention, 15th December 08

Selection Convention, 15th December 08

Well we had a fantastic convention last night with a huge turnout. Unlike Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, the Labour party gave its membership a democratic vote as to whom would be selected rather than running interviews and head-office dictating to the branch what to do, so to start with, its a victory for Democracy.

Labour will run 5 candidates in the local Wexford Borough Council Election next June (keeping in mind we currently hold 5 out of 12 seats anyway) as follows:

Theresa Walsh (fantastic)
Cllr. Ted Howlin (Mayor)
Cllr George Lawlor (Previous Mayor 07-08)
Cllr. Joe Ryan
Cllr. Davey Hynes

Labour will run 3 canidates in the Wexford County Council area (currently holding one out of 5) as follows:

Cllr. Ted Howlin (Mayor)
Cllr George Lawlor (Previous Mayor 07-08)

with a third candidate to be selected as soon as possible.

The campaign Manager and campaign team will be organised before Christmas and the team wil be hitting the highways and byways in the New Year.

With over 6000 new people on the register after the expansion of the Borough Boundary and over 1000 households not yet on the register, there is plenty of votes there for Labour to secure the necessary new votes whilst retaining and gathering more from the old town boundary area and are confident in reaching their targets.

I would like to take this opportunity to everyone who turned up tonight and allowed Democracy to win...

regards

John

Our Future Project

So, we've all heard from just about every party at this stage that one thing we need to do is attract the "high-end" jobs to Ireland, re-train the nation and get ready for the time when we leave recession behind. Of course this is made even easier by the government slashing I.T. funding in Schools by 39%...

I know in the medium to long term this issue will be addressed (starting with the INTO organised protest this Saturday to the time when the current Government gets changed) but in the short term this is an issue which the Labour branch in Wexford are going to address on a local level, with a simple, easy solution;

The Future Project over the next 3 weeks are asking all households that are replacing their computer this Christmans to donate their old equipment to us so that we in turn can redistribute it to schools. Most of the schools in Wexford town have been contacted at this stage and are interested in taking part. A full list of the participating schools will be available by the end of the week.

So, if you have any old computer that deserves a new home, let us know. If you have any other equipment that may be of use, for example a mouse, keyboards, printers, scanners, screens or even maybe an old digital camera hanging around let us know. If you would like to help but have no spare equipment, go up to Aldi and but a reem of paper to donate, costing around €2.00 - to borrow a line - every little helps.

If you are a business or know of a business that sells computers please let them know to ask customers to pass on their old equipment to us. If you collect any suitable items under the WEEE initiative let us know also.

Anyway for more information contact me John Ryan on 086 3953846.

Thanks

John