Wyatt McIntyre
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Wyatt-James "Wyatt" T. McIntyre (born 16 July 1980 in Valleyview, Alberta) is a Canadian political strategist, author and political activist.
McIntyre was raised in the province of Alberta. He educated in Theology in Wisconsin and History in Calgary, Alberta, and is an active Lutheran. McIntyre was active in the United States Republican Party in the Midwest and the Southwest, Reform Party and Craig Chandler's Progressive Group for Independent Business in the 1990s, and worked as the Constituent Relations Assistant for Member of Parliament Rob Anders. In Manitoba McIntyre worked as a Legislative Assistant for Ron Schuler and Glen Cummings in the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Caucus. In 2002, he worked on Stephen Harper's bid to replace Stockwell Day as leader of the Canadian Alliance and in 2003 he worked on Scott Brison's leadership for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada following the retirement of former Prime Minister Joe Clark as Party Leader.
Moving from behind the scenes to being a candidate, McIntyre has run in four separate elections in two provinces, twice in municipal elections and twice in provincial elections. Known for running skeleton campaigns as a party standard bearer and sacrificial lamb, McIntyre's chances of winning have always been quite low.
McIntyre's first campaign was for the Calgary Public School Board in 1998, where he lost to Chair Judy Tilston but garnered almost a third of the votes cast in the race. He was later a candidate of the Alberta First Party for Calgary Fort in the 2001 Alberta provincial election, and finished last in a field of eight candidates with 99 votes. He campaigned for a seat on the Calgary city council later in the same year, and was again defeated.
He later moved to Manitoba, and worked as an assistant to two Members of the Legislative Assembly in that province. He ran as a candidate of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party in the 2003 Manitoba election, and finished third in the north-end Winnipeg constituency of Point Douglas with 337 votes (8.37%). The winner was George Hickes of the New Democratic Party. McIntyre's campaign bill for this election was $10.68.
McIntyre currently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was active in the campaign for Progressive Conservative candidate Andrew House and was the campaign manager for Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Candidate Andrew Black. He also operates a website entitled "Radical Tory". The page contains several articles on the history of the Conservative and Progressive Conservative parties in Canada. He has recently authored and self published his first novel Montana Skies a romance that is the story of a ficticious Republican Senator in the 1960s. Rather than setting it with real characters from the time McIntyre changed the names of the key players while reflecting on real people and events of the time with a partial social commentary.
