Keyboard warriors are out in full effect targeting Mayor Lisa Helps in a series of attack ads on Facebook that the incumbent is calling a B次元官网网址渄istraction from democracy.B次元官网网址�
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ItB次元官网网址檚 the anonymity that is dangerous and disappointing, she added.
In March, Helps made headlines when she announced she had deleted her personal Facebook account because she felt the social media platform had become a B次元官网网址渢oxic echo chamber.B次元官网网址�
Her personal Instagram account is still active and in her hands, she said, but Twitter has been taken over by her campaign team.
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In a Facebook post, View Royal Mayor David Screech called other Facebook groups dedicated to negatively portraying and attacking Helps B次元官网网址渟leazyB次元官网网址� and B次元官网网址渃ompletely and utterly unacceptable.B次元官网网址�
He called out the anonymity of the posts saying, B次元官网网址渋f you have a position then have the courage to put your name to it.B次元官网网址�
Because the Facebook group affiliated with the ads was registered as a B次元官网网址減olitical organization,B次元官网网址� Helps is interested to see what approach Elections B.C. takes. New election rules state groups who classify themselves under that banner must register as third-party organizations.
Meanwhile, attendance has been steady at the mayorB次元官网网址檚 weekly drop-in sessions, which she invites the public to attend and stressed she is always available via text or email, when sheB次元官网网址檚 walking or biking, or even at the grocery store. B次元官网网址淚B次元官网网址檓 constantly in public. ThatB次元官网网址檚 how I want to interact with people.B次元官网网址�
Helps said her team is not tracking the ads or looking to reveal the source from which they came. Instead, theyB次元官网网址檙e focused on the campaign, namely, door knocking.
B次元官网网址淲e know that elections are won on the doorstep. Elections are not won on Facebook.B次元官网网址�
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