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Perth-Wellington NDP select candidate for june ontario election

The Perth-Wellington NDP have their man for coming Ontario election.

At a nomination meeting Thursday night, the riding association selected Michael O’Brien, the only person to seek the position, to be their candidate in the election set for June 7th.

O’Brien was born in Belgium and grew up in Wales before moving to Canada in 1971 and working as an engineer in the Mississauga before moving to Stratford in 2015, he’s been involved with the NDP party in both Mississauga and now Stratford.

O’Brien says he has only heard good things about his only known competitor at this point, Randy Pettapiece, and he’s just going to try and share his own views on the campaign trail.

“All I can say is I just have to speak my piece, I understand that Randy Pettapiece has quite a good reputation and I haven’t heard anything bad about him, all I can do is do my best and we will just compete.”

The NDP placed third in the Perth-Wellington riding in the 2014 provincial election finishing with 18.94 % of the vote.

No other parties have selected their candidates yet in the Perth-Wellington riding.

 

Casey Kenny
Casey Kenny
A graduate of the Broadcast Journalism Program at Loyalist College, Casey has worked in newsrooms across the country for 20 years. Stops along his radio adventure include Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, North Bay, Stratford and now Kemptville. Casey is also a veteran play-by-play announcer and is the Voice of the Kemptville 73's Hockey Team. A proud uncle of eight nieces and nephews, Casey is happy to call Kemptville home now.

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