Original sentence: Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, endorsed him prior to the first ballot
Edited sentence: His profile was also raised when Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, endorsed him prior to the first ballot.Speculation was heard that if it were not for the party's new one member one vote system, which allowed the majority of the party's membership to vote before the convention, he would have obtained a much larger proportion of the vote.The campaign speech he gave to the NDP convention in Toronto was acclaimed as one of the most eloquent since the days of Tommy Douglas