Posted: Feb 05, 2021 8:15 PM NT | Last Updated: February 6
Provincial NDP president Kyle Rees led the vetting process for candidates in this year s election. (CBC)
The Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party is promising to do a better job of vetting potential candidates in light of controversial tweets by two candidates in this year s campaign.
Andrew Lovell, the party s candidate for Conception Bay South, used derogatory anti-gay language in tweets several years ago in tweets to friends.
Lovell wrote, Faggot!!! and Have a couple beer cooled off for me dick licker, in August 2012.
In August 2013, he wrote, Comin at you fags! First couple rounds might be an auto draft then flatout dick jokes! The online publication True North first reported about Andrew Lovell s homophobic tweets.