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Only hours after being elected New Democrat MLA Deborah Drever has taken down her Facebook page after facing a barrage of criticism over a number of questionable photos.

“I guess I have to lay low for a while,” she told the Herald Wednesday.

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“It looks like there are a lot of angry people out there, and they’re attacking all the younger candidates.”

Drever, a 26-year-old Mount Royal University student, was elected Tuesday in the riding of Calgary Bow. But she woke up Wednesday to a number of criticisms on Twitter along with photos from her Facebook page, including one making a reverse peace sign in front of a T-shirt promoting marijuana, and another with someone giving the finger to the Canadian flag.

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“Really, I was just joking around. I don’t smoke pot, in fact I’m allergic to it.

“And that’s not my finger on the flag. I have a lot of friends, whose pictures are on my site, and they don’t necessarily all share the same values that I do.”