Sometimes your past can come back to haunt you.
Trish Kelly was hoping for a spot on the Vancouver park board under the Vision Vancouver banner.
But when the party learned of a video she made eight years ago as a performance artist talking about her masturbation regime, she was urged by the party to drop out.
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Compare Kelly’s video with the antics of Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who after all the headlines, is still running for re-election.
It makes Kelly wonder if anyone with an artistic bent could ever run for politics nowadays.
Kelly says she put a lot of hard work into winning the park board nomination.
Vision Vancouver would not comment on camera, only issuing a statement announcing that it regretted her decision.
– with files from ted chernecki
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