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A former UCP riding board member said he quit after being bullied by party colleagues due to his co-operation with an investigation into Leader Jason Kenney’s leadership campaign.

Mark Hudson, who stepped down from the UCP Livingstone-Macleod constituency association last week, said the contention by Kenney and party MLA Jason Nixon that he left because of dissatisfaction over the nomination of candidate Roger Reid is misleading.

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“Kenny’s and Nixon’s comments, which alluded to “disgruntled members” unhappy with the nomination process, was ignorant, divisive and unfounded,” Hudson stated in a letter he emailed Wednesday.

Reid’s nomination, he added, was conducted fairly and the party’s top brass apparently have confused that contest with a controversial one next door in the Highwood riding.

“I can assure you none of us left for that reason,” said Hudson.

Hudson said he could no longer remain the Livingstone-Macleod constituency association’s vice-president of fundraising and events because he’s been “tormented” by other riding board members after he leaked evidence of wrongdoing in the so-called “kamikaze” campaign that allegedly aided Kenney’s effort in securing the UCP leadership.