Daudrich quits PC party

Longtime Progressive Conservative party board member and leadership candidate Wally Daudrich is leaving the party.

“I am by my nature a very loyal person and I have now concluded that while I would never quit the conservative movement, the PC Party has completely abandoned me and all conservatives like me,” Daudrich said in a letter sent Saturday to the PC party leadership obtained by the Free Press.

“I understand that you are moving away from conservative values in the hopes of a better outcome at the ballot box; I suggest to you that this direction is wrong and ill-advised,” wrote the controversial and outspoken Daudrich. The Churchill resort owner, who also has a home near the Turtle Mountain constituency, narrowly lost the PC leadership last year to Obby Khan after receiving more votes in the contest that used a weighted point system.

He was informed by the party earlier this month that he would not be allowed to seek the nomination in the conservative stronghold of Turtle Mountain for failing to meet “certain conditions during the vetting process.”

Daudrich said in his letter to the party leadership that he’s had enough.

“Conservatives such as myself deserve a political home, and unfortunately it appears to me that the PC Party of Manitoba no longer represents the conservative community… I no longer believe that my goals can be achieved through an association with the PC Party of Manitoba.”