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Conservatives choose Drysdale Two candidates asked to drop out prior to Nov. 8 vote By Jennifer Lang knew exactly where anyone was,” he said. On his website, Drysdale thanked memJust days after two candidates were told bers of the new Conservative Cloverdaleto withdraw from the race, former Langley Langley City Electoral District Association, Township councillor Dean Drysdale has who voted at A.J. McLellan Elementary in claimed the Conservative party’s nomination in the new federal riding of Cloverdale- Cloverdale on Saturday (Nov. 8). “I look forward to serving everyone in Langley City. Cloverdale-Langley City and working with Drysdale, who served on the township council from 1996 to 2002, won on the third our party under the leadership of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to ballot over Mike Garisto of win this seat,” said Drysdale, a Cloverdale. Former B.C. Liberal businessman who owns his own MLA Dave Hayer, also a resi“I don’t think consulting firm and is currently dent of Cloverdale, was forced as a professor of busioff the ballot after the second anybody knew exactly teaching ness management at Kwantlen round of voting. where anyone was.” Polytechnic University. More than 1,300 members He also thanked fellow of the Cloverdale-Langley City candidates Garisto, Hayer and Conservative Association took - Dean Drysdale van Popta for “having the courpart in the vote. age to present your names and Tako van Popta, former presireputations to our community.” dent of the Langley ConservaThe new riding takes in tive association, withdrew after communities that have historically bethe first round. longed to separate electoral districts, but Last week, the Conservative Party told have traditionally sent Conservative MPs candidates Gurmant Grewal and Paul Brar that they had to withdraw from the nomina- to Ottawa, including South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale MP Russ Hiebert, who tion race. The reasons have not been made is not seeking a fifth term in 2015, leaving public. the new South Surrey and CloverdaleThat changed the dynamics of the nomiLangley City electoral districts without nation voting, Drysdale told Black Press incumbent MPs. Monday. – With files Black Press “I don’t think anybody (the candidates)
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The Cloverdale-Langley City Conservative Association chose Dean Drysdale, above left, in a nomination vote held Nov. 8 in Cloverdale. Drysdale beat Dave Garisto, top right, Dave Hayer, and Tako van Popta.
Vote ends long Conservative race in new riding By Jennifer Lang In a race that began more than a year ago, the field of declared candidates slimmed down unexpectedly last week, when the national Conservative Party told candidates Gurmant Grewal and Paul Brar they had to withdraw from the nomination race in Cloverdale-Langley City. Brar is a Surrey banquet hall owner and Grewal is a former Conservative MP. His wife, Nina Grewal, is MP for Fleetwood-Port Kells. Grewal told the Vancouver Sun last week he’d signed up 1,500 members, raising hopes of a comeback for the former MP.
According to The Sun, Garisto and van Popta had heard rumours about irregularities, but they did not file formal complaints with the party. Grewal, a three-term Surrey MP under the Reform, Canadian Alliance and Conservative banners, was politically damaged and found by Parliament’s ethics commissioner to have acted improperly in 2005 when he secretly taped top Liberals he claimed were trying to bribe him with offers of a cabinet post to cross the floor and save their minority government. He opted not to run again. In a press release posted to his website Nov. 6, Grewal said his campaign attracted a
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significant number of new members for the party. “I am proud of my record, achievements, and contributions and hoped to bring meaningful solutions to the problems faced by all of us,” Grewal said. “I have dedicated the prime of my life to helping to build the Conservative Party and its legacy parties. Though my silence is not my weakness, I have supported my party and its leaders through thick and thin. I continue to support the Conservative Party of Canada and the leadership of Prime Minister and wish them success in the next election.” For voters in Cloverdale and area, the 2015
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federal election race is shaping up to be a contest between two Langley residents. The successful nominee, Dean Drysdale, is a past executive member of the former Langley Conservative association. He joined the Progressive Conservatives at 12, in 1976, and later served in the Prime Minister’s Office under Brian Mulroney, before running for the Canadian Alliance in Quebec in 2000. The Liberals recently endorsed Parks Canada employee John Aldag (see story page 5) and the federal NDP have not yet chosen a candidate for the new riding. – With files Black Press
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