Candidate’s win despite trans-feces comparison not surprising: Pride Lacombe
The head of an LGBTQ group in central Alberta says he isn’t surprised a candidate who compared transgender students in schools to feces in food won her seat in Monday’s provincial election.
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Jonathan Luscombe, who is the executive director of the Lacombe Pride Society, says the group knew Jennifer Johnson would get in, and there wasn’t an opportunity for that to be changed.
Johnson won the Lacombe-Ponoka seat by more than 9,000 votes over the New Democratic contender in the constituency.