New Blue is making its first appearance in an Ontario Election campaign, and the neophyte party was the first to field candidates in all 124 Provincial ridings.
Former paramedic, and local Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke New Blue nominee Thomas O’Connor says this isn’t the first rodeo for the New Blue spousal unit that founded the party.
Husband Jim Karahalios twice attempted to join the current federal Conservative leadership contest, while his partner Belinda was the sitting MPP for the Cambridge riding when the legislature was dissolved.
O’Connor says despite having representation at Queen’s Park, New Blue is being systematically excluded from debates because Belinda had been elected as a PC in 2018.
The local New Blue nominee says the party wants to reclaim conservative values from entrenched top-down control.
Thomas O’Connor says most New Blue nominees are working stiffs with a common-sense approach to government.
Because of his background in paramedicine, proper Health Care is his first priority.
On June 2nd Thomas O’Connor shares the R-N-P ballot with incumbent PC John Yakabuski, Kurt Stoll of the NDP, Liberal Oliver A. Jacob, Kade Macwilliams of the Ontario Party, COR nominee Murray Reid and the Green Party candidate Anna Dolan.
by Rick Stow
