Who is Westside-Kelowna BC
Conservative candidate Sean Upshaw? Well
I asked Sean that very question, and here is what he had to say:
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Westside-Kelowna BC Conservative
candidate Sean Upshaw
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Every story has a
beginning. Mine is similar to some, and
greatly dissimilar to others. I begin
with this simply to let you know my early roots. My parents divorced when I
was 3. and I ended up in foster homes and between parents. Due to illness my
Mom was on Disability Assistance; my father was an alcoholic. It was a
challenging time for me as a child, and into my late teens.
At age 18 I nearly died when I was stung by dozens of wasps, and I went into
anaphylactic shock. I survived, and shortly after, I made a decision to make
some major changes in my life. Since
then I have never looked back, and set myself on a path to be the best person I
can.
I have been married to my lovely wife,
Heather, for almost 30 years. We moved here to Kelowna 11 years ago from Abbotsford, with
our 3 children, Andrew, Sarah and Dave.
Since then, Andrew has gotten married,
to Ashley, and they have 2 children, Noah and Ezra. Sarah has been working with
me for about 7 years. She did receive her real estate license, but is now
working as my unlicensed assistant. Dave was working in real estate with us as
well, but has recently moved to Vancouver with his fiancé, Jen.
Heather and I have a dog named Sami.
Some of my hobbies are spending time with my family, watching Canucks hockey
and Golf, being out on the lake in the summertime, and vintage cars. I really
enjoy studying the stars, the universe and physics.
I am also a political junkie. My
political interest began when at the age of 10 in Camrose Alberta.
There I had the opportunity to meet, and shake the hand of, Premier
Peter Lougheed. From that moment on, I grew to learn that that one individual
can make a difference in this world.
In the 2011 Federal Election I ran as an Independent Conservative Candidate
in the Okanagan Coquihalla riding, and of course in the recent BC Provincial
General Election, I ran as a candidate for the BC Conservatives.
My record is that of a person who is
well educated, a real
achiever who is not afraid to be innovative and take
risks.
I am loyal and committed to what is
right, and to serving people whenever and wherever I am able. Even though I
could have been held back by a challenging start to life, I have not let that
hold me back from being the best person I can be.
The reason I have chosen to run, in
the Westside Kelowna by-election, is because our Province truly needs a
Conservative government if we are to ever get out of the financial mess that
the BC Liberals have put us in.
It is not an easy task taking on a
Premier, especially one who is as arrogant and cunning as the one we have now.
Our province has been robbed from,
lied too, and corrupted by this present Liberal government, but hopefully with
new eyes on the situation, and the ability to speak first hand to it, they can
finally be held to account.
The BC Liberals have done a masterful
job, of covering up their past, with a campaign that was paid for by the very
taxpayers that are being deceived. I guess you could say we have sown the wind,
and reaped to the whirlwind. Soon the chickens will come home to roost.
Unfortunately it seems the media, in
large part, are a big part of the problem. They have long passed the point of
journalism and have been sold out to commercialism. The unbiased days of truth
and fairness have been replaced with favoritism and greed, and the need to be
populist instead realists.
Am I being too honest?
So I have chosen to run because I, like
many BC Conservatives, am not under the “spell” of this agenda.
I see my role in Victoria as one of fighting for truth in the
midst of what Christy Clark herself has called a “sick” culture -- one I hope
that a growing number of British Columbians will come to acknowledge as a role
much in need of being filled. It certainly is not one that the NDP will take
on, after all, they are as much a part of it, as the BC Liberals.
