Steve Neary

Uh, were your f- was your family Progressive Conservative? Bell Island has kind of been a swing district over the years, right?

It's ironic because in, in the early days, Steve Neary just lived down the street and was real good friends with my mother.

Had gone to school with her, grew up with her as part of that process.

Um, but for some reason, she was supportive of Jim McGrath.

So, you know, I'm open-minded, but I'm a Progressive Conservative.

Always have been, and unless the world changes, I think I always will be.

[laughs] It's funny you mention Steve Neary, and, uh, I never met the gentleman, but he was the member down in my district many, many years before.

But you know someone has an impact when I can remember my first campaign going down to places like La Poile and going down the coast, and they were still talking about shit that Steve Neary had promised them back in the '70s, and it was just...