Equal Parenting Alliance News – May 2007
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CAMPAIGN NEWS
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Worth Bothering for 17 Votes?
Although 17 votes in Runnymede (out of approximately 1200 votes cast) may not seem like much, Keith’s result was achieved entirely on his own without any campaigning or even a leaflet drop.
In fact, considering the first time most voters in Runnymede had even heard of the Equal Parenting Alliance was when they were in the ballot box, in some ways it’s remarkable that anyone voted for us at all!
Unfortunately, we weren’t able to stretch our resources to give Keith any more than simple moral support in this election. (Keith understood this as the decision to stand was last minute).
Of course, we would have liked more votes, but in the end we are not doing this to get elected.
We are doing this to raise the political profile of equal parenting and the problems caused by society’s poor response to family breakdown.
Naturally, we hope to do better next time in both national and local elections.
Web-Site Visitors Sky-Rocketing!
Our web-site visitor count shows a dramatic increase for the last few months. After hovering around 450 visitors per month throughout 2006, this has steadily increased in the few months before the election, reaching over 1500 in April.
So far in May, we’ve already had over 700 visitors (as I write this on the 9th of May), so we look to continue this trend, even if the local effect of the elections diminishes.
Of course, this is important to us because it shows that we are being noticed. It doesn’t even matter whether the people looking at the site are our ‘enemies’, as this still shows we are making an impact.
The number of people who have looked at the Equal Parenting Alliance web-site per month. Visitors are only counted once, so if someone visits the site ten times in a month, they still only count as one visitor in the above graph.
(Note this measure is not the same as the often quoted ‘hit count’ which is an utterly useless figure. For example our hit count for April was around 40,000. The hit count is deliberately used simply because it is large and impressive, always misleadingly so).
Target £2,200.00
Total on 09/05/07
£1105.00
£1105.00
Election Fund 2007
Election Fund-Raising
Thanks to everyone who made a donation towards our election fund. We aimed for £2,200 which would cover the basic cost (deposit and leaflets) of fighting two seats in the Scottish elections.
As it was, the amount we received covered most of the costs of fighting just the one seat in Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley near Glasgow.
But we now have to get even more serious into raising funds to fight more campaigns in future local and By-Elections, not to mention the general election in [probably] two years time.
So as well as keeping the fund open, we’ll be chasing any other potential large-scale donors who may be interested in helping us achieve our aims in the medium term.
So if you should happen to know anyone with spare wads of cash hanging around, please let us know.
Our Election Fund-ometer