Skelly, Robert Evans

SKELLY, Robert Evans, schoolteacher, politician (b 14 Apr 1943, New Westminster). After graduating from UBC he became a schoolteacher, and won a seat in the provincial legislature for the NDP in 1972. He became leader of the provincial party in 1984 and seemed poised to do well in the 1986 election, when a stumbling kickoff to the campaign was captured on television and his ability as a campaigner proved no match for the charismatic new SOCIAL CREDIT PARTY leader Bill VANDER ZALM. The NDP...

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