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In response to Farkas’s recent push to halt the project, a pro-transit group called Calgarians for BRT released a Call to Action on its website Wednesday that urged citizens to “tell city council not to let special interest groups kill rapid transit projects for ordinary Calgarians.”

Christopher Doyle, a volunteer with Calgarians for BRT, said the initial post included a photo of a Calgary home that had a “Better Re-Think” lawn sign from Ready to Engage.

Doyle said that photo and a reference to the neighbourhood where the home is located were removed from the post after the group was contacted by the homeowner.

“We’d made the assumption that since he put up a sign on his front lawn that he was making a public statement,” Doyle said. “We didn’t realize maybe that wasn’t the case.”

In a media release issued Thursday morning, Farkas said the post, “resulted in the shaming and cyber-bullying of constituents who had expressed their view on the SWBRT project.”

“I condemn the American-style negative politics used by this advocacy group,” Farkas said in the release. “I have been advised that the Calgary Police Service has been notified of this malicious attack.”

A police spokeswoman confirmed Thursday the service had received a report in relation to the photo, and Farkas said the family that lives in the home feels threatened.

But Doyle said the group’s intent was to illustrate their call to action with a relevant photo, not to cyber-bully anyone and he called the accusations of American-style politics from Farkas “interesting.”