As the son of retired political heavyweight John Crosbie, Ches Crosbie presents Newfoundlanders and Labradorians with a familiar name as he seeks to become the province's next premier in the May 16 election.
But the Tory leader is not the only Progressive Conservative hopeful from the storied family -- his sister Beth Crosbie is running for the party in a neighbouring district in the provincial capital.
"I ran in 2015, so I would like to think that I inspired him," she said with a laugh in a recent phone interview. She finished second in the district behind Liberal candidate Bernard Davis last time around. While Ches is touring the province, Beth has been focusing her efforts on door-knocking in her district of Virginia Waters-Pleasantville.
She said it's too early to say what kind of role she'd take on if elected, but she'd be glad to pitch in on initiatives to bring more young people and women into politics, or in the area of culture and tourism.
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