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