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CALGARY — Days after a female candidate cited intolerable abuse as her reason for pulling out of the race for the leadership of the Alberta Conservatives, a male candidate says he has also had verbal threats aimed at him.

Jason Kenney told reporters at the Calgary Peace Symposium on Friday night that Sandra Jansen isn’t the only one who has experienced bullying.

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Jansen pulled out of the campaign earlier this week, saying she could no longer take the personal and online abuse she has endured from supporters of another candidate.

She said it peaked at last weekend’s policy convention in Red Deer, when her nomination forms were vandalized and she was followed and harassed in the hallways of the convention centre.

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On Friday, Kenney said at the same convention he had “people jabbing me in the chest and shouting expletives” at him.

He also said he has endured online attacks.

“People sometimes at political events let their emotions get the better of them and they should rise above that,” said Kenney.