In touch with the electorate?

[The Rev Peter Sarkey]

Sean,
I live a few hundred yards away from you and you have never visited, knocked on the door or bothered to see if everything in our area is alright. No doubt you have been too busy elsewhere. If you are even thinking about renewing your mandate on a Parish footing, i.e. representing LOCALISED issues, don't you think that your opportunity to do this is waning?

[Pomme de terre]

Oh boy.

I'd pay good money to see the doorstep meeting of Sean and Dylan 

[Sean Power]

Hi Dylan,

How do I answer you ?  My phone does not have an answering machine, my mobile ditto, I hold three clinics a month in the Parish, and I float around most week-ends, especially in the Summer on Saturdays with the Corbiere car-boot sale.  I do not meet all 8000+ people living in the District. I meet a fair few.  If you live a few hundred yards from me, then you are out on the western part of La Moye.  The biggest issue I am aware of is week-end traffic and speeding motorcyclists.  Am I missing something ?

Phone me. I would like to meet you.

Sean

[Sean Power]

Hi,

I may add that I will be pounding the pavements for the next 21 days.

Sean

[Razzard]

Hi,

I may add that I will be pounding the pavements for the next 21 days.

Sean

Lets hope that's all your be pounding!

[Sean Power]

Hi,

Dylan is alright. he just likes to give me a bit of a hard time.  I have been through much worse and been attacked really badly in the past !

Sean

[en830]

Which part of the population do you canvas Sean.

I live on Route Orange, we've never had anyone call all through the Senatorials, and from recollection never had anyone call during the last election either. Though some did pass as they left their posters on the land in front of our house, which were swiftly delivered to the parish hall.

I think my main concern is the late night speeders, and also the level of youth crime in and around the parish.

[Sean Power]

Hi,

I will be starting Monday on the door to door.  I try and bang on every door, wait to see if there is an answer, put a brochure through the letter box and move on. I hand deliver everything.  I can't afford a mail drop nor would I want to. So, I will be out there.

The late night speed jockeys are a problem as are the week-end high speed motorcyle drive-by's.  Sunday afternoon, I am guaranteed to have a high speed convoy of big bikes. They seem to send a scout out first to do recon.  The Police have been out here many times and never seem to catch them.  From the prison bend to Corbiere, they try to get up to 80+mph.

Late last night, some idiots were doing high speed drives on the beach at the bottom of Mont a La Brune at La Braye. When the Police arrived, they were gone.  They also do wheelies in the car-park at Ouaisne. Trying to catch them is really difficult.

They play cat and mouse with the Police.

Sean

[The Rev Peter Sarkey]

Sean,

The reason why I will not be voting for you is that it is my belief that "parish deputies" are just that. I think you should have started canvassing for this the day you got in, rather than just before  you might not get back in. The voting public would have apreciated the contact and you would be remembered for it.
The papers today are showing promise for another supermarket, but not a French one. I would have laid money on that, which is why I asked you what happened? You still think one will come, I dont.

[Sean Power]

Hi,

I respect your views and voting statement.  I have to disagree.

If you seriously think that a Parish Deputy, with States responsibilities has time to canvas door to door on a weekly basis for three years, then you have no idea how it works.  It is simply not an option for a Parish Deputy to cocoon him/herself in the comfort zone of that Parish.

Name me one that does this and does not take States responsibilites and I will tell you what their status in the Parish would be after three years.

Sean

[The Rev Peter Sarkey]

I've been in private business for the last 20 years. I have employed up to 127 people. I have worked tirelessly and stayed focussed on the issues in hand so I would be grateful if you did not patronise me with what cannot be done. I started with a £200 van 2 kids and an ex wife. If I have had to work weekends I have done so, I have had 4 major construction companies take the rug out from under my feet because they went bankrupt. All the time this has taken place I have made time to visit people who are sick, help people who need assistance and give time to my kids, at the same time reinvent my business so it moves with the times. The last bankruptcy of Stansells took away my pension.
You, on the other hand have been on your own admission to France many times, to Ireland as well and probably elsewhere. You have also on your own admission in this thread wasted time as a single campainer chasing French supermarkets, French Ferry companies and French Freight companies as well as other half baked ideas, which qualify to be the equivalent of intellectual Darwin awards. All the time doing this, could have been spent getting to know the people you represent. It is fairly obvious where your comfort zones are.

By the way, when I was 8, my brothers aged 10 and 12 and I used to help my father canvass for a council which had 33 firestations, and 27 police stations, he became Chairman of that council. So I wouldn't be too sure if I were you that I know nothing about how it works. By comparison to the catchment, Jersey is a large Village.

[Sean Power]

Hi,

We have all been through the school of hard knocks. We all give of our free time. I am not going to parade what I do here.  People who know me know what I do. You are not the only one that has been effected by bankruptsy or cessation of businesses. We were caught twice by Shepherd Hill and one other.

Contrary to what you think, my time in France between 2004 and 2005 far exceeds my time there since. I have been to France twice in three years.

Here, I meet people all the time in the Parish. I was with two different groups last evening. The fact that I have not banged on your door is a measure of very little.

Like you, I was brought up in a political environment and was involved in the Irish General election of 1977 for Fianna Fail. I am still a member of that party. My parents were not political. My mothers family were very political.

Sean

[newmac]

Hey Dylan if you have so much experience and all the answers maybe you should have stood for election

[The Rev Peter Sarkey]

What and stop Martha and Monty getting in???

[newmac]

If you can do better than them why not?