For the first time in 8 years my name will appear on a ballot paper. (PS: as a Lib Dem.)
by Stephen Tall on April 4, 2012
It’s official: I will be the Lib Dem candidate in the 3rd May Oxford City Council elections, standing in Headington Hill & Northway ward.
This was the letter awaiting me on my return from work today:
The last time I stood for election — in neighbouring Headington ward — was 2004. Here’s my election special Focus leaflet… complete with all your Lib Dem faves: a bar-chart with squeeze message, ‘Working hard all year-round’ slogan, petition slip, and pot-hole action.
Lib Dem Focus, Headington ward, Oxford City Council (May 204)
I guess it worked (I won 61% of the vote and, ahem, the biggest majority in the city that year). It was a distinctly happier occasion than the council elections two years previously when I narrowly avoided becoming a poster boy for Lib Dem misery.
For the sake of posterity, here’s the earliest campaigning photo I have on my computer — circa 2002, with my soon-to-be Headington ward colleague (and former tutor), David Rundle:
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New post by me: For the first time in 8 years my name will appear on a ballot paper. (PS: as a Lib Dem.) http://t.co/sqjhJxmx
by Stephen Tall on April 4, 2012 at 7:48 pm. #
Want to see the earliest campaigning photo I have on my computer (c.2002)? Campaigning in Headington, Oxford: http://t.co/sqjhJxmx
by Stephen Tall on April 4, 2012 at 8:35 pm. #
From me last night > For the first time in 8 years my name will appear on a ballot paper. (PS: as a Lib Dem.) http://t.co/sqjhJxmx
by Stephen Tall on April 5, 2012 at 8:18 am. #
Stephen Tall, standing for H Hill & Northway, remembers when he was city councillor for Headington ward: http://t.co/hHc0rnWm
by Headington News on April 11, 2012 at 6:35 am. #