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Very excited to join the @andrewscheer campaign for leader as his Outreach Chair! A real conservative, a unifier. #ScheerShiptofreedom2019 —

Georganne Burke (@georganneb) October 27, 2016

In her new job as outreach chairwoman for Scheer’s campaign, she is expected to play a key part in trying to sell new memberships and round up support from party faithful across the country.

“As far as I could see, maybe the (Bernier) campaign wasn’t a right fit for me. I’m very much a ground organizer, that’s what I do, and I didn’t feel that was the direction the campaign was heading. It was more of an air war than a ground war, and I like the ground war,” Burke said.

“So I’ve gone to a campaign where I know they take that seriously.”

Burke has nothing but good things to say about Bernier, a Quebec MP, noting she likes him as a person and loves his strong conservative policy ideas. But she just didn’t like how the campaign was being run.

A spokesman for Bernier’s campaign confirmed Burke recently left the team and wished her well.

“Georganne left the campaign for personal reasons a couple of weeks ago,” Maxime Hupé, director of communications for Bernier’s campaign, said in an email.

“We learned today that she’s joining Andrew Scheer’s campaign and wish her good luck.”

Scheer’s campaign has some early momentum, announcing about a month ago it already had 20 Conservative caucus members backing him, including 17 MPs (all from Western Canada) and three senators, with more endorsements to come.

Burke said Scheer, a Saskatchewan MP, is very similar to Bernier in many ways, calling him a “real conservative.”

“Andrew is not a right-wing kook by any stretch. He’s a very solid, reasonable guy, but he does have strong conservative values, and I like that about him,” she said.

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