The position of External Communications Coordinator is a vital one on the Green Party's Executive - it is essentially the person who controls all the media and PR work and works very closely with the Press Office. I have no hesitation in supporting Tracy Dighton-Brown for this position. I have known Tracy since she worked at the London Assembly with the Green Assembly Members but have had a lot more contact with her over the last year. Tracy has reorganised the Press Office completely and made it extremely efficient and candidate friendly, which is more than could be said for it in the past. As a candidate in the recent European elections in London, I found her responsive and supportive and the Press Office were always quick off the mark and did an excellent job both during the campaign and leading up to it.
Furthermore, Tracy is people friendly and has excellent communication skills, which are vital for someone in this sort of position. Even under the most intense pressure, which she experienced a great deal this year, partly due to the actions of some, whose actions bordered on harassment, she kept her cool and delivered an excellent election result in the European elections, including what many people felt was the party's best ever party election broadcast.
She also completely reorganised the positions of the Spokespersons and gave far more importance and visibility to equality and diversity issues such as LGBT and disability rights, and fully involved both the Disability and LGBT Spokespersons in the party's campaigns without ever descendig into tokenism.
Over the next year, going into an important general election, it is absolutely vital that the party retains her ability and skills. Backed by those who have the most experience in dealing with the Press Office, including the party's two MEPs and former Principal Male Speaker, Derek Wall, I am giving my full support to Tracy's re-election.
Tracy's election statement is here http://tracyforcomms.wordpress.com/
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