With just over a week to go, the candidates in the Ontario Liberal leadership race are scrambling to line up endorsements from MPs and other notables within the party. Today, Sandra Pupatello — who emerged as the front-runner after last-weekend’s delegate selection process — announced that 25 presidents of Ontario Liberal riding associations — from Thunder Bay-Atitokan on Ontario’s border with Manitoba to Ottawa-Orleans on its border with Quebec — have endorsed Pupatello. There are a total of 107 ridings in the province. This comes on top of what the Pupatello campaign claims is 83 ex-officio delegates. (There are only 419 ex-officio delegates).
Here’s the list of riding association presidents jumping on board the Pupatello bandwagon:
| Ajax-Pickering: Donna Dickson
Algoma-Manitoulin: Tom Farquhar Davenport: Mike Semansky Don Valley East: Saurabh Popat Eglinton-Lawrence: Pietro Cugliari Essex: Ken Schmidt Etobicoke-Lakeshore: Allan Ritchie Hamilton-Centre: Derek Houlbrook Kitchener-Conestoga: Thirstan Falconer Mississauga East-Cooksville: Wendy Bodnoff Oak Ridges-Markham: Shana Betz Ottawa-Orléans: Ed Philpott Ottawa-Vanier: François Baril
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Ottawa West-Nepean: Maria Ricci
Sault Ste. Marie: Greg Hannah Scarborough-Guildwood: Lawrence Dawkins St. Catharines: Ron Cuthbert Sudbury: Bill Nurmi Thornhill: Sandra Racco Thunder Bay-Atikokan: Jim Mauro Thunder Bay-Superior North: George Macey Welland: Mike Belcastro Windsor-Tecumseh: Milan Stipic Windsor West: Sami Mazloum York South-Weston: Andrew Robertson |