Mike Bradley

Education

He was nominated by Cullen"s Liberal party as candidate for Sarnia—Lambton but finished second to Progressive Conservative Ken James.

Career

He is the longest-serving mayor in Sarnia City Council history and currently the second longest-serving mayor in the province of Ontario behind Milton"s Gord Krantz. Prior to his entering elected office, he served as executive assistant to Sarnia—Lambton Member of Parliament Bud Cullen. With this experience, Bradley made the decision to first run for public office in 1984, trying to take Cullen"s soon to be vacated seat.

Bradley then turned his eyes to municipal politics.

He was elected alderman in 1985 and decided to run for mayor three years later upon the death of Mayor Marceil Saddy. The 1988 municipal election featured four council members running for the mayor’s position.

The other three were Doug Bain, veteran alderman Wills Rawana, and alderman Elizabeth Wood. On 27 October 2014, Bradley was elected as mayor for his ninth consecutive term.

In 2010, the Ontario Disability Employment Network approached Bradley about issuing a challenge to other mayors to employee individuals with disabilities.

Bradley is quite visible in his role as mayor, in both his formal roles and in other casual circumstances. He has appeared on many parliamentary committees on behalf of the municipal sector, and has made numerous media appearances, including a regular stint as a discussion panelist on Ontario Morning, Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio One"s local morning show in Southern Ontario. A lengthy interview with him in his office at Sarnia City Hall also appeared in Michael Moore"s documentary Bowling for Columbine.

Bradley is a frequent media commentator on local, provincial, national and international issues.

He has appeared on Prime Time News Town Hall Series with Jean Chrétien. National Broadcasting Company News with Tom Brokaw.

Cable News Network. Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio Noon; Focus Ontario.

As lieutenant Happens; and the current Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio shows. He appears on Canadian Broadcasting Company"s Ontario Morning Mayors" Panel and was a regular on the national Canadian Broadcasting Company radio show The Point.

Bradley appeared in Michael Moore"s Bowling for Columbine and was called by Moore "The Voice of Reason". He writes a column for Sarnia Lambton This Week—a mixture of humour, politics and about life—called "Open Mike", which was described by the London Free Press as "having more laughs than a Dave Barry column." Bradley, a long-time Bruce Springsteen fan, contributed to two books about Springsteen in 2007 and 2009—Foreign You and The Light in the Darkness—by Lawrence Kirsch.

Sarnia municipal election results (Mayor), 2014

Sarnia municipal election results (Mayor), 2010

Sarnia municipal election results (Mayor), 2006

|} Source: Sarnia Lambton Votes

Sarnia municipal election results (Mayor), 2003

Federal

Source: Elections Canada.

Achievements

• Bradley won re-election in 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2010, in particular defeating the 1988 interim Mayor Ron Gordon a second time in the 1994 election.