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Jason Zadrozny

How you can help us make history in Ashfield

By Jason Zadrozny | Mon 9th February 2015 - 4:59 pm

I remember the feeling of despair.  It was the early hours of Friday, 7th May 2010.  Our team had failed to gain Ashfield by 192 votes.  That’s 192 votes out of nearly 50,000.  How annoying is that!  I looked at our exhausted team and vowed to finish the job.  A team who had worked their socks off and given their hearts, souls and just about everything else over an exhausting, yet strangely exhilarating campaign.

Everyone said we couldn’t do it.  I suppose they were right – we didn’t.  Starting the campaign nearly 15,000 behind and in 3rd place it was always going to be tall order.  A 19.5% swing was an incredible achievement though.  It was difficult to see at the time, but this was the moment our job really started…

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