Ex-conservative Hopeful Now Voting for Liberal in Federal Election

Ex conservative Hopeful Now Voting for Liberal in Federal Election

Deb Tait Wanted to Run for the Conservative Federal. Now, she doesn’t even want to vote for them.

Deb Tait Wanted to Run for the Conservative Federal. Now, she doesn’t even want to vote for them.

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The Woodstock City Councillor-Whose Father is oxford’s training longtime Tory Mp, Dave Mackenzie-Had a Bitter Falling-out With the Party when A Toronto-Area Lawyer, Arpan Khanna, Beat Her for the appointment to run in 2023 Byelection, Which All But Guarantee A Seatwa Representing the Conservative Stronghold.

Khanna is now Seeking re-Election in the April 28 Federal Election. But Tait’s Split from the Conservatives remains, and She’s Speaking Out in Support of His Liberal Opponent.

“David Hilderley is a local person who has been here for years,” was Said. “Dave is jacket in the community..

“I’m gooir to support HIM.”

TAIT SAID HILDERLEY WOULD ACT in the “Community’s best interest,” and felt the liberal candidate Carried a non-partisan perspective.

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The 2023 Oxford RIDING Byelection was triggered when Mackenzie withdraws from Politics after Nearly Two Decades as mp. But Things Got Ugly Amid accusations party officials stacked the deck to help khanna win the nomination.

Khanna Had served as Ontario Co-Chair for Pierre Hairyre’s Successful 2022 Push to Become Conservative Leader.

Lawyer Arpan Khanna Embraces A Support at The Oxford Auditorium in Woodstock after the Federal Byelelement for the Conservatives on Monday, June 19, 2023. (Free Press File Photo)

Tait and her father spoke out his nomination and Two Conservative Riding Association Leaders Also left. In the 2023 Byeleleration, Khanna Beat Hilderley by 2.524 Votes – A Smaller Margin of Victory Than Mackenzie Ever Secured, Though It’s Worth noting Byelection Results can be unprredictable.

Khanna Faced online Criticism, included one person who wrote he’d been “parachuted” into the large rural riding that also included Woodstock and Ingersoll.

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This week, the free press feel khanna a series of questions he agreed to ANSWER over email. They include the concerns over his local bona fides in oxford.

“Conservative local first thing me have the candidate Two Years Ago, After Which I was privileged to win the Privilege to Take Oxford in the June 2023 by-Election,” Khanna’s Wrote in Responsible. “I am working hard to win that Privilege Again.”

In the April 28 Election, in Addition to the Khanna-Hilderley Rematch, the other candidates are Matthew Chambers (NDP), Jacob Watson (Christian Heritage) and Steven Beausoleil (People’s Party).

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Recounded from Editorial

  1. Federal Conservative Candidate Arpan Khanna Addresses A Crowd of Supporters in Woodstock After Tooking the Lead Over the Liberal Candidate in the Oxford byelele on Monday, June 19, 2023. (Calvi Leon/The London Free Press)

    Oxford Mp-Elect arpan khanna on axpectedly tight win

  2. An Elections Canada Sign is Seen During the 2021 Federal Election. (Postmedia)

    Liberal candidate, Backed by Tory Veteran, Sights on Byelection sets

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