Wayne Dryer was the New Democrat candidate for Saint John Harbour in 2010 but will be running Green this year!
As speculated in an earlier post, Mr Dryer has officially jumped ship. Or as he suggested at a Green Party Rally held at the Saint John Public Library this year; the New Democrats abandoned him. Wayne ran a nomination bid for the NDP in Saint John Harbour but lost to new candidate Gary Stackhouse, a popular radio personality. Now the former Baptist Minister joins David Coon’s team and runs against Stackhouse in the provincial election.
In 2010, Saint John Harbour was a narrow three way race between Dr Ed Doherty (L), Carl Killen (PC), and Dryer. Killen won the riding with a modest lead. Killen received 1,333 votes, Doherty garnered 1326, and Dryer in third place with 1203. Patty Higgins ran as the Green contestant in 2010 but only won 236 votes (placing the Greens in an embarassing fifth place finish after Independent John Campbell who received 247).
We may expect to see some NDP ballots go with Dryer as he moves to the new party. Dryer will need all the support his name can muster in a riding that placed the Green party behind a relatively unknown non-partisan name.
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