Only a smattering of United MLAs chosen to run under BC Conservative banner following last week's pact
United they stood, but divided they fell. BC United’s 57-person roster of candidates and incumbents was consigned mostly to the political scrap heap Tuesday, after Conservative Leader John Rustad picked his way through the party’s roster of abandoned candidates and drafted only a small number to his election team.
That’s certainly not what United members thought was going to happen last week when leader Kevin Falcon told them about the Conservative deal — though, to be fair, they didn’t hear the plan in much detail because Falcon only delivered it after it leaked in the media and mere minutes before he went on stage to announce it publicly.
In both cases, the negotiations were on-and-off for days. For Milobar, an enormous amount of energy was expended trying to get existing Conservative candidate Dennis Giesbrecht to move to Vernon-Lumby. For Halford, folks like Falcon and former Surrey mayor Dianne Watts cashed in their capital to save him.
“To have this happen at this late date, and try to figure out what it all meant was pretty stunning,” she said.
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