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Mayoral candidate Kevin Klein said attack ads from Winnipeg’s largest union are an example of “dirty politics” and verge on United States-style campaigning.
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Mayoral candidate Kevin Klein said attack ads from Winnipeg’s largest union are an example of “dirty politics” and verge on United States-style campaigning.
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Mayoral candidate Kevin Klein said attack ads from Winnipeg’s largest union are an example of “dirty politics” and verge on United States-style campaigning.
The pamphlets, signed by the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 500, show a United States flag draped behind Klein, with text stating he has sided with “the broader alt-right political movement” and defends the U.S.
“As Canadians we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard. This is not the politics that we have experienced in the City of Winnipeg. This is not the type of politics we want to experience in Canada,” he said during a Tuesday news conference at his campaign headquarters.
(Matthew Frank / Free Press) Mayoral candidate Kevin Klein holds attack ads by the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 500 during a press conference Tuesday.
He called on incumbent candidate Scott Gillingham to denounce the ads and reject the union’s campaign support.
“I’m calling on Scott (Gillingham) to denounce what they (the union) put up, denounce them as a support because he doesn’t support that kind of dirty politics,” Klein said.
Neither Gillingham or the union immediately responded to requests for comment.
CUPE Local 500 endorsed Gillingham’s re-election bid last week.
“Winnipeg hasn’t seen a mayor this dedicated to strengthening core city services or launching innovative public programs on safety in three decades,” Local 500 president Patrick Troughton said in a news release Friday.
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