Dear colleague
I am writing to ask for your help to get Katy Bourne re-elected as the Conservative Police & Crime Commissioner on 5th May. Katy has delivered some outstanding results as Sussex PCC, including helping Sussex Police be rated among the top five nationally. Thanks to her strong financial management and Theresa May’s protection of police budgets, Katy will be recruiting up to 100 extra front line police officers, more PCSOs and investing in smart phones and body worn cameras for officers on the beat.
Delivering
As you can imagine, the logistics of communicating with an electorate of nearly 1.2 million people is a real challenge, and we can’t possibly do it without the help of you and your Association. We have asked the Associations to help with this by delivering 300,000 newspapers across Sussex. These will be arriving on 5th April and we really need your help to deliver these to our target areas. We are also hand delivering postal vote letters in some areas1 and we cannot deliver a strong Conservative victory without your help. It really is a case where many hands make light work. Katy and I are available to come and help with delivering, please just let us know when and where and we’ll come along if we can, just email [email protected] with the details.
Also, can you please ensure all In Touches produced between now and 5th May have a piece about Katy, we can supply appropriate copy, just send an email to [email protected].
Telling
In areas where we already have other elections on 5th May2, telling arrangements will be in hand. However we would like to have a Conservative presence at as many polling stations as possible on 5th May, and certainly all the busy ones. Can you please start to address this for your area, let your Association officers know if you can help with this.
Media & Public Appearances
As you will probably have seen, we have already made a strong start to our campaign with Katy making important appearances on many fronts, including an appearance on BBC Breakfast to discuss domestic violence and was mentioned by name by the Prime Minister in PMWs recently when he said “Katy Bourne does an excellent job as the Police and Crime Commissioner”. Katy will also be appearing at various hustings over the coming weeks and we will publicise dates for these as we get them.
If you have an opportunity and would like Katy to come and speak in your area, please email [email protected] with the details.
Thanks again in advance for your support, we can’t win in Sussex without you. I’ll write with more campaign updates over the next few weeks, there are only six weeks till polling day.
Best wishes
Pete Bradbury
Campaign Manager