Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar has announced his bid to run for the Kamloops Centre riding for the BC Conservatives in the upcoming provincial election.
“British Columbians deserve a government that listens and acts in their best interest," said Milobar in a statement issued by the BC Conservative Party on Tuesday, Sept. 3. "I am joining the Conservative Party of BC to ensure that our communities are heard, and that we stand together against the NDP’s harmful policies. It’s time for conservatives to unite and deliver the change this province desperately needs.”
BC United (BCU) leader Kevin Falcon started the domino effect on Wednesday, Aug. 28 when he pulled out of the provincial campaign urging members to support John Rustad and the BC Conservatives asking “all free-enterprise voters to come together” to oust the NDP.
Ward Stamer, the mayor of Barriere, has recently taken a leave of absence from his mayoral duties to run for MLA on behalf of the BC Conservatives in Milobar's current riding of Kamloops-North Thompson.
"I welcome the opportunity to work with Peter in the future," Stamer told Black Press on Tuesday. "He has such valuable experience. Dennis Giesbrecht will shift his run from Kamloops Centre to Vernon-Lumby where he will do very well in that riding. We have such a strong team committed to a successful campaign in the coming days."
Two other BC United MLAs made the transition to join the BC Conservatives on Tuesday.
Ian Paton in Delta South and Trevor Halford in Surrey-White Rock also crossing the floor in their own bid to defeat the NDP as new BC Conservatives in the 2024 fall election.
