Vandals have damaged campaign signs of two Kelowna-Lake Country candidates in the past week.

First was Stephen Fuhr, who had at least three signs vandalized with his face being coloured in with black marker. The vandalism happened after a photo was published last week of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with dark makeup on his face and hands while dressed as Aladdin in 2001.

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Gray did not provide photos of the signs to Capital News because she did not want to give the person responsible any sa国际传媒渁irtime,sa国际传媒� but described the things written on her signs as sa国际传媒渧ery vulgar.sa国际传媒�

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sa国际传媒淚sa国际传媒檓 sure that residents here have other things to concern themselves with in their businesses and in their lives than whether or not I have damaged political signs.sa国际传媒�

Gray said she informed Fuhr about his damaged signs as soon as she found out.

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sa国际传媒淭his morning our sign team was out checking on our signs and saw defaced signs.

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Fuhr, seeking re-election as the Liberal Partysa国际传媒檚 candidate for Kelowna-Lake Country, said the vandalism to his signs was very unfortunate.

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sa国际传媒淲e raise money to pay for those signs and people volunteer to go put them out. To see people go out of their way to do something like that I think is really too bad.sa国际传媒�

Last week Trudeau profusely apologized for dressing up as blackface and asked Canadians for their forgiveness during a press conference in Winnipeg after photos emerged that he dressed up as blackface or brownface on three separate occasions.

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Despite the controversy, Fuhr stands by his embattled leader.

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michael.rodriguez@kelownacapnews.com
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