{"id":128837,"date":"2022-11-25T14:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=128837"},"modified":"2022-11-25T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T20:15:09","slug":"mayoral-candidate-bonnie-swift-responds-to-criticism-after-far-right-tweets-vanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/mayoral-candidate-bonnie-swift-responds-to-criticism-after-far-right-tweets-vanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayoral candidate Bonnie Swift responds to criticism after far-right tweets vanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tantramar mayoral candidate Bonnie Swift has responded to criticism after a slew of controversial far-right posts disappeared from her public Twitter account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The social media posts suggested her politics are heavily influenced by the far-right on issues such as anti-racism, abortion, health-care privatization and the Canadian oil and gas sector.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When local residents and journalists raised questions about her stated views this week, hundreds of tweets suddenly vanished.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first-time politician had previously campaigned on transparency in local government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swift says her tweets are being taken out of context, and that her husband deactivated the account without her knowledge because of online harassment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reached by phone, Swift told CHMA she \"could care less\" if residents decided not to vote for her over the deleted tweets.<\/p>\n<p>\"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">'m not desperate to win this race... I'd be happy just leaving it, not talking to anybody,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The news comes just ahead of Election Day, Monday, Nov. 28.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full report, which aired on CHMA's Tantramar Report on Thursday, Nov. 24:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tantramar mayoral candidate Bonnie Swift has responded to criticism after a slew of controversial far-right posts disappeared from her public Twitter account.\u00a0 The social media posts suggested her politics are heavily influenced by the far-right on issues such as anti-racism, abortion, health-care privatization and the Canadian oil and gas sector.\u00a0 When local residents and journalists&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":126153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[21128,17798,5774],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128887,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128837\/revisions\/128887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128837"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=128837"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=128837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}