John Hogan enters Liberal leadership with splashy launch, bolstered by party stalwarts

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Hogan's entranceway was successful stark opposition to John Abbott's understated announcement connected Tuesday.

Hogan's entranceway successful stark opposition to John Abbott's understated announcement Tuesday

· Posted: Mar 06, 2025 12:04 PM EST | Last Updated: 11 hours ago

A antheral successful a suit stands successful beforehand of a ample reddish motion that reads John Hogan.

Windsor Lake MHA John Hogan entered the Liberal enactment contention Thursday with a splashy launch, surrounded by influential enactment members, indicating he's the insiders' prime to regenerate Premier Andrew Furey.

"As leader, I'm going to bring my experiences arsenic a minister, MHA, arsenic a lawyer and arsenic a begetter to a captious constituent successful Newfoundland and Labrador's past and to its future," Hogan said to a country afloat of supporters crammed into a edifice gathering area.

He besides made it wide that if elected, helium volition travel the aforesaid governmental way Furey's walking when it comes to wellness care, a caller vigor woody for the Churchill River, and warring backmost against what helium called unjust and unlawful tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump.

"I decided to participate authorities due to the fact that I believed successful Premier Furey's imaginativeness for our province," helium said.

A antheral successful a suit with a reddish pin that says John Hogan 2025.

MHAs rally down Hogan

Hogan made his announcement wrong a edifice ballroom in his St. John's' district, cheered connected by astir fractional of the 22-member Liberal caucus, influential Liberal organizers specified arsenic John Allan, and a formed of existent and erstwhile elder governmental staffers, galore of whom person been cardinal Furey advisors.

Some MHAs, including Krista Lynn Howell, Jamie Korab and Elvis Loveless, person thrown their afloat enactment down Hogan.

Hogan is a metropolis lawyer and begetter of 2 young children. He will observe his 47th day connected Friday.

He was introduced by Howell, who represents a agrarian territory connected the Northern Peninsula and tried to assistance Hogan link with small-town Newfoundland and Labrador.

"He ever tries his champion to find a solution and recognizes the unsocial challenges that I look successful a agrarian community," she said.

A pistillate successful a achromatic overgarment whispers to different pistillate successful a achromatic coat.

Other MHAs specified arsenic John Haggie and Perry Trimper accidental they'll hold until the adjacent of nominations connected March 24 earlier offering their enactment to a peculiar candidate, but they besides made it wide that Hogan has what it takes.

"I consciousness he's an fantabulous campaigner for this enactment race," said Trimper, who said he'll consult with his Lake Melville territory relation astir wherever his enactment volition go.

Hogan's lively and time-honoured governmental event, implicit with "John Hogan 2025" placards and stickers, was successful stark opposition to John Abbott's lawsuit connected Tuesday.

Abbott, the MHA for St. John's East-Quidi Vidi, called reporters to a media availability wrong the beforehand lobby of Confederation Building to state his candidacy, with only a fistful of supporters connected hand. Abbott said helium does person the enactment of immoderate of his elected colleagues, but nary were there.

So it's shaping up to beryllium a replay of the 2020 enactment contention erstwhile Abbott, the outsider with constricted enactment support, faced Andrew Furey, with the enactment instrumentality astatine his side.

A imaginable 3rd candidate, Labrador MP Yvonne Jones, plans to uncover connected Friday whether she volition participate the contention oregon not.

Andrew Furey steps down arsenic premier of N.L. aft 4½ years successful office

Hogan, meanwhile, is intimately connected to the outgoing premier, having managed Furey's 2020 enactment campaign, and was subsequently encouraged by Furey to tally successful the 2021 provincial election.

In that election, Hogan received much than 50 per cent of the ballot and defeated PC Leader and incumbent Ches Crosbie.

Furey displayed his assurance successful Hogan by naming him Justice and Public Safety Minister successful the outpouring of 2021, and aft longtime MHA Tom Osborne resigned from authorities past summer, Hogan was shuffled to the wellness and assemblage services portfolio.

WATCH | About fractional of the Liberal caucus showed up to cheer connected John Hogan:

John Hogan wants to beryllium premier, and helium plans to travel Andrew Furey’s governmental path

The antheral who managed Andrew Furey’s Liberal enactment run successful 2020 is present moving for premier. John Hogan has officially entered the race.

Hogan has besides served arsenic the province's lawyer general.

"I'm acceptable to instrumentality the instrumentality and I'll navigate our state done these ever changing economical and societal changes to physique upon the enactment and achievements of our authorities and show to the satellite conscionable what Newfoundland and Labrador stands for," said Hogan.

family representation of person John Hogan.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Terry Roberts is simply a newsman with CBC Newfoundland and Labrador, based successful St. John’s. He antecedently worked for the Telegram, the Compass and the Northern Pen newspapers during a vocation that began successful 1991. He tin beryllium reached by email astatine [email protected].