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The battle for leadership of the PC party has quickly moved from testy to downright explosive.

The only women in the provincial party leadership race — Sandra Jansen and Donna Kennedy-Glans — suddenly dropped out Tuesday afternoon.

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Both fled a competition they see as hostile to moderate ideas. In vivid language, Jansen claims she was harassed at the party’s policy conference in Red Deer on the weekend.

“Insults were scrawled on my nomination forms,” she said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.

“Volunteers from another campaign chased me up and down the hall, attacking me for protecting women’s reproductive rights, and my team was jeered for supporting children’s rights to a safe school environment.”

This has been going on for months, says the Calgary MLA. “My social media has been filled with filth, my domain name purchased to direct people to smear (me).”

Jansen doesn’t utter Jason Kenney’s name, but her views on his campaign were clear to people who talked to her on the weekend.