Photo submitted by Darrell Bastarache.
One of Saint John’s four mayoral candidates says he fired his campaign manager after he was found guilty of assaulting a woman in court this week.
Darrell Bastarache’s former campaign manager, Ed Hoyt, is currently awaiting sentencing.
According to media reports, Hoyt was also convicted of assaulting a former girlfriend in 2017.
Bastarache said he was unaware of Hoyt’s past when he hired him to manage his campaign.
“First one [conviction] caught me a little bit by surprise, but where it was four years ago… I was like ‘well, maybe we can let this one slide,’” Bastarache said. “But then once the second one came out I was like ‘whoa, we can’t let this slide anymore.’”
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