UCP leadership hopeful Danielle Smith took to social media on Monday morning to decry the calls as fake after they gained traction online yyc abpoli UCP
Cassandra Raugust said she began receiving calls from people who told her they were with Smith’s campaign on Friday night. In brief clips of the multiple calls and voice messages she received and later posted on social media, two self-proclaimed volunteers separately call her a communist, a racist and other names after she tells them she doesn’t support Smith.
“This is just ridiculous. I have never been a fan of Danielle Smith; I didn’t buy a membership,” she said. “I’ve said much worse. I’ve called out on everything and never have I been harassed like this … this is odd. It’s just all odd.” Smith, the perceived frontrunner in the race to replace Jason Kenney as UCP leader and premier of Alberta, took to social media on Monday morning to decry the calls as fake after they gained traction online. She makes no mention of who she believes to be behind the calls.Article content
“This is clearly a malicious prank from someone trying to pretend to be on our campaign. This is fake. Our call centre uses a publicly accessible campaign number, not a private number. It’s a good idea to refrain from jumping to conclusions as dirty tactics seem to be common these days,” Smith said in a written statement to Postmedia.
Regarding this voicemail prank. Clearly it is someone pretending to be on our campaign. It is fake. Our call centre uses a public number & was also not in operation during those call times. Probably a good idea to refrain from jumping to conclusions from dirty tactics.