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R. O. Lissaman Gets City Tory NominationReg I ■dssaman, 34, was nominated Progressive Conservative candidate for Brandon Thursday and opened his campaign for a fifth term as MLA for Brandon with a biting attack on political foes who labeled Brandon as fhe “forgotten city of Manitoba.”Addressing some 65 people attending a Progressive Conservative nomination meeting, Mr. Lissaman said that Brandon under the last four years of Con-1 servative government was one of the best treated cities in Manitoba.in an obvious reference to a speech made here Tuesday by provincial Liberal leader Gilda's Molgat, Mr. Lissaman said that the city had received more help from the provincial government while he sat as a private member than they would have if he had been a member of the provincial cabinet.They said that this city suffered because it did not have a member as cabinet minister I say this city got more from the government because I was notEARLY BIRDAl miOTI/l AOa cabinet minister and was free to fight for this city.”Mr. Molgat stated that Brandon was the second largest city j in Manitoba, and the fact that it's sitting member was not a member of the cabinet, was proof that Brandon was taken for granted in higher Tory circles and passed over when it came to aid from the government.Mr. Lissaman heaped scorn on this charge by the Liberal leader, pointing out that when the Liberals were in power ‘‘Brandon was truly the forgot-, ten city.”Using Brandon College as an example. Mr. Lissaman said that when he entered the legislature as an opposition member in 1952. the college was receiving just $22,500 annually from the provincial government. They gave the college nothing in the way of capital grants.He contrasted this with treat-1 mcnt of Brandon College in five years of Conservative rule. The 1963 govermeftt estimates call for $393,000 to go to Brandon College and this does not ituft’staklt; in a previous $500,000 grant to the college or a pledge of $2,000,000 towards the present college expansion, he said.Mr. Lissaman said his efforts on behalf of Brandon had not slackened since he changed from a member of the opposition to a member of the government.He said his speeches as an opposition member were made on the floor and were publicize-3 by the press. As a member of the government he has to confine his efforts on Brandon's behalf to the party caucus. This is a meeting of all Conservative MLAs to go over bills before they are presented in the legislature. The press is excluded from* party caucus and objections to bills go unrecorded to aid the party’s efforts to maintain a unified front, he said.Other examples of Conservative largess during the Rob-lin administration, he said, were a $595,000 grant towards the construction of Brandon General Hospital’s new building and the new Eighteenth Street bridge.The reference to the Eighteenth Street bridge enabled Mr. Lissaman to take a crack at James Creighton, his Liberal opponent in the Dec. 14 election. Mr. Creighton lost out to Mr. Lissaman in the 1953 provincial election.R. O. LISSAMAN . . . Tory nomineeAnderson ; Gets Nod From GritsMINNEDOSA (Special—Frank j Anderson, farmer of Forrest, was unanimously chosen as Lib-, cral candidate for the Minne-j dosa constituency on Thursday. There were no other nominations.About 250 people, 128 of them I delegates, attended the meeting ( in the Legion Hall. William Tur- , ner. of Onanole. president of the .
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Nov 23, 1962
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