School District 57 trustee and chairperson Rachael Weber is seeking the Conservative Party of B.C. nomination in the Prince George-Mackenzie riding.
Weber announced her intention to seek the nomination on Facebook, but wasn’t immediately available for comment.
“Rachael Weber has provided the Conservative Party of BC with an expression of interest in being the candidate for the Prince George-Mackenzie riding,” party leader and Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad said in an email. “The party will be providing her with a candidate questionnaire followed by a review process. The party will also be setting a candidate selection meeting date. Members of the riding association will then have an opportunity to vote for their preferred candidate if more than one candidate puts their name forward.”
The party intends to run candidates in all 93 ridings in the upcoming election, he added.
“We are very excited about the quality of candidates who have expressed interest in running for our party,” Rustad said.
Rustad is currently the only Conservative MLA in the B.C. Legislature, after being kicked out of the B.C. United (then named the B.C. Liberal Party) caucus in August 2022 for expressing his views about climate change.
Weber was first elected as the Mackenzie representative on the School District 57 board in a January 2022 byelection. She was re-elected by acclimation in October, as the only candidate to step forward in Mackenzie.
Members of the School District 57 board elected her as their chairperson in November.
