Rob Priestly says he has no ALP links and lodges complaint after messages appearing to be authorised by Nationals sent to Victoria constituents of Nicholls
Priestly, a local businessman, isin the seat, which has a margin of 20% but is hotly contested in a three-way contest between Nationals candidate Sam Birrell, Liberals candidate Steve Brooks and Priestly. Sitting Nationals MP Damien Drum announced his retirement late last year.
Priestly says that while he turned down the offer because he didn’t want to run for the National party, “it then did start me thinking about whether or not I wanted to run at all”.
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