Ndp Withdraws Candidate After Twitter Comments Targeting Stampede Board
Content of the article Marilyn North Peigan will no longer be the party’s candidate in the north-central Calgary riding, currently held by UCP MLA Jeremy Nixon, after she retweeted a video clip of Ward 13 Coun. Dan McLean with an accompanying tweet claimed he was corrupt and that one of his family members was a corrupt Calgary Stampede board member. Content of the article “The publication of these posts follows an ongoing pattern of behavior that undermines this candidate’s ability to work with or represent the Alberta NDP and its members,” Stevens said....