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Marciniw, the Green party candidate for Richmond North Centre, had tweeted in support of fat shaming (claiming it had led him to slim down) and retweeted a controversial message about the holocaust.

Jonsson said Marciniw understood what he was agreeing with or commenting on “was so insensitive and inappropriate.” He had removed the tweets about a month ago, Jonsson said.

Nearly a decade ago, Marshall, the Green party candidate for Vancouver-West End, posted content that made light of pedophilia and drug abuse. Those posts were deleted Sunday.

“He’ll be the first to say they were in poor taste and inappropriate attempts at humour,” Jonsson said.

Of the posts by Green, the party’s candidate for Fraser-Nicola, Jonsson had this to say: “The party does not condone any 9/11 ‘truther’ theories and he appears to be posing questions about them.” Green’s posts were taken down “a while ago,” Jonsson said.

“They all — independently of one another and independently of this making its way to the surface —- have moved on from these views, and regret what they did,” he said.

It is common for parties to vet their candidates’ social media accounts.

mrobinson@postmedia.com

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