A NSW Greens candidate posted a vile image depicting Jesus in a sex act with the captions “i love easter traditions” last weekend during Greek Easter as pressure mounts on the left wing party to dump the candidate.
Connor Parissis, who is running in the inner west seat of Barton, was already forced to apologise this morning for encouraging violence and anti-Semitic posts.
The Greens labelled the earlier posts “foolish and harmful” but stood by their candidate who claimed to have made the offensive posts before being endorsed by the party.
However, The Daily Telegraph can now reveal Mr Parissis used a locked Twitter account with the handle @TheElginMarbles to post offensive images and even brag about stealing a plant from Kmart in the past two weeks.
He even shared a message from Greens official Paul Fitzgerald on Monday warning the candidate about his use of social media which Mr Parissis captioned “lol”.
“Connor, why say ‘yes’ to that tweet calling the Greens communists? It could hurt your campaign and the Greens in general I think. And it’s not true. Paul Fitzgerald,” the message states.
Mr Parissis had also posted a series of anti-Semitic images and openly promotes the use of illicit drugs in the past year.
Read the article by Sheradyn Holderhead in The Daily Telegraph.