All day working on Ross McKay’s Eaton Socon Election FOCUS requiring rework until 2am in the morning before everybody was satisfied with the final result. In the meanwhile, two of our other recently elected councillors were at cross purposes and I phoned Sally and Michael to ask them to get the problem in hand.
It was quite a day today that did not finish until 2.00am the following morning. The routine was quite normal until Sandie Giles arrived at 8.30am and then we spent from then until mid-afternoon preparing the letters to be sent to former Liberal Democrat supporters identified at the last by-election. I had to produce the material from my combination of photocopier and laser printer and Sandie had to get some £50 worth of stationery from Clover to re-stock my supplies and renew a toner cartridge! During this time, I was trying to compile and lay out the first election FOCUS and this task was the one that kept me up late. The problem was to try to make coherent sense of the copy from Ross and then lay it out to look attractive as well as informative.
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Then, once this had been done at 10.0pm, Ross and Derek pronounced themselves un-happy with the emphasis and found numerous errors late in the day so that I had to re-jig the whole thing and get copies to them for early-morning study. Also, there surfaced more problems with the Eaton Socon councillors as they seem to be working at cross purposes with Judi O'Callaghan threatening to resign over interventions from Chris Colbert and I phoned Sally and Michael to ask them to get the problem in hand. I am certainly not prepared to conduct another Eaton Socon by-election campaign before May.