Career
He was elected in the 1988 federal election at the Cambridge electoral district for the Progressive Conservative party. He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament but lost to Janko Peric of the Liberal Party in the 1993 federal election, finishing with less than half of Peric"s votes, and even behind the Reform party"s Regional Petersen. Sobeski served as a municipal councillor in Woodstock, Ontario beginning in 2003.
He was elected as the mayor of Woodstock, Ontario in the 2010 municipal election, defeating incumbent Michael Harding.
Sobeski was defeated by Birtch in a faceoff along with former Mayor Harding in 2014. He died on 17 March 2016.
