The flyer borrows an old line from shock jock Alan Jones and casts North Shore MP Felicity Wilson as a liar who should be preferenced below anti-vaxxers.
A ‘teal’ candidate has distanced herself from Climate 200 – a major campaign donor – for circulating an attack ad that casts her Liberal rival as a liar who should be put last on the ballot, below an anti-vaccination party.
The flyer does not mention the ‘teal’ candidate in the seat, Helen Conway. It is one of several Climate 200 ads that landed in northern Sydney letterboxes this week; others targeted Manly MP and Environment Minister James Griffin, and Pittwater Liberal candidate Rory Amon. Helen Conway, the ‘teal’ candidate for North Shore, said she had no prior knowledge of the Climate 200 flyer.“I was not aware that Climate 200 were planning to distribute a flyer of this nature, and I did not endorse or provide authorisation for its distribution, and nor did anyone from my campaign team,” Conway said in a statement.
Labor candidate Godfrey Santer, the deputy mayor of North Sydney Council, has recommended voters put Wilson second-last, ahead of the vaccine sceptics. Kean’s comments prompted Conway to bemoan: “The Liberal Party still hasn’t learnt that these sorts of dirty tactics by politicians are what is driving the momentum for change in our state.”On Tuesday, Wilson said the Climate 200 flyer was “pretty grubby”. “I’m not going to get into the gutter with them,” she said. “It really is bringing the worst of politics into our local community campaigning. We don’t do this.
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