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   swing vote riding to a swing vote riding   
   Re: Sexist running for Harper Cons in Ki   
   11 Sep 15 13:34:54   
   
   From: brewnoserii@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 11:51:19 AM UTC-7, a swing vote riding wrote:   
   > Neck and neck with the Liberal candidate, Deb Schulte, in the preliminary   
   polls.   
   > Ladies, you know what you have to do . . . .   
   > _________________________________________________________   
      
   Followup:   
      
   Konstantin Toubis, the Conservative candidate for the GTA riding of   
   King-Vaughan, admitted Thursday that he had shared a series of controversial   
   Russian-language articles about sex and gender -- which he said he did not   
   write -- on his personal Facebook    
   page.   
      
   However, he said the articles didn't reflect his views as "a married man with   
   a daughter."  He said he linked to the material "because it was ridiculous."   
      
   "Yes, it was reposted, and yes it was on my wall," Toubis told the Star.  "No,   
   it's not my values, it's not who I am."   
      
   Toubis said he has no intention of stepping down, and that he didn't think the   
   posts should interfere with him running for public office.  "I don't see any   
   problem for me to be a candidate."   
      
   In response to questions from the Star, Conservative spokesperson Stephen   
   Lecce provided a quote from Toubis, in which he reiterated that the articles   
   he shared "do not reflect how I feel or who I am."  Lecce declined to answer   
   when asked whether the    
   posts were appropriate, or if Toubis would still stand for the party in   
   King-Vaughan.   
      
   The posts were first reported by Press Progress, a news website that describes   
   itself as "a media project of the Broadbent Institute," a think-tank chaired   
   by former federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent.   
      
   Toubis linked to the articles, between July 2014 and last March, according to   
   Press Progress. One of them purports to give advice to men.  "A man never   
   raises his hand to a woman . . . . There are other body parts to raise for a   
   woman," reads a portion,    
   according to the Press Progress translation.  "If you catch your girlfriend   
   with a woman, you have the right to silently undress and join them," reads   
   another.   
      
   One article Toubis shared asserted that if a man likes women with "bony   
   behinds," it is "a sign of a latent homosexual," Press Progress said.   
   _______________________________   
      
   Even more of a problem with this man is that he doesn't 'see' a problem with   
   his postings or his views.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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