Feigning ignorance Steven Rhett Cansdell seeks to re-enter politics.....
The Daily Examiner, 14 June 2018. p.1:
Former Clarence MP Steve Cansdell’s
return to public life began with an apology.
“Firstly I want to nip
things in the bud,” Mr Cansdell began when he spoke yesterday at the Grafton
Hotel to reveal why he would stand for the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party
at the 2019 NSW Election.
“Seven years ago I
stuffed up through ignorance, but ignorance is not an excuse,” he said.
“I had to resign. It was
the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life, to resign from parliament, and the
people I served and expected things from me, to let them down.
“To them I apologise.”
Mr Cansdell resigned
from Parliament in September 2011 after he revealed he had illegally signed a
statutory declaration six years earlier to avoid a speeding ticket and loss of
his driver’s licence.....
The Shooters Fishers and
Farmers party MLC Robert Brown said the party had recruited Mr Cansdell about
two months ago.
“Somebody who knows him
knew he was thinking of having another crack,” Mr Brown said.
“So they put him in
touch with us.
“We met with him in
Sydney two months ago then we danced around it a bit because I don’t think he’d
made up his mind yet and we hadn’t made up our mind.
“As we got to know him
we decided if we’re going to have a go in the Clarence, this is the sort of
bloke we’d campaign for and we think he has a shot.”
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