BC candidate confident ahead of NDP leadership convention

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – He may be an underdog, but BC’s lone candidate for the federal NDP leadership race is still in it to win it.
    
“We’re focused on the finish line, man,” says Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen.

Party members have been able to vote online since March 1st and most members are expected to have cast ballots ahead of the March 24th leadership convention in Toronto.

Cullen says he doesn’t think there is an obvious winner in the race, despite Thomas Mulcair and Brian Topp being touted as the front-runners. He adds his campaign is flush with cash as well.

“The brain trust in Ottawa didn’t think we had a chance or wouldn’t raise any money, and we’ve been able to show, even as we challenge the party’s thinking, we’ve been the recipient of donations from more people than any other campaign and we’ve also raised about as much money as any other campaign,” he said.

Cullen claims he doesn’t have a second and third choice in the party’s preferential system and he’s not telling supporters who to vote for after him.

“We’re also showing that we’re unwilling to just send out melbatoast ideas,” he adds. “We’re thinking that this race has to be about good ideas and being bold and saying that the next step is the next step. I’m not happy with official opposition, that’s not where I want to be. That’s not where Jack [Layton] wanted to take us, it was to government.”

Cullen has proposed cooperating with Liberals and Greens in ridings held by Conservative MPs, an idea not overly embraced by his leadership opponents.

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