Apprentice priest and Karen Howard supporter in clash over campaign posters and alleged shove

By Tim Connell
June 26 2016 - 5:00pm
CAMPAIGN FLASHPOINT: Jesse Poole, a supporter of the Liberals' Karen Howard, with a poster of Labor's Meryl Swanson that Maitland MP Jenny Aitchison accused him of tampering with on Saturday night. Picture: Jenny Aitchison
CAMPAIGN FLASHPOINT: Jesse Poole, a supporter of the Liberals' Karen Howard, with a poster of Labor's Meryl Swanson that Maitland MP Jenny Aitchison accused him of tampering with on Saturday night. Picture: Jenny Aitchison

LIBERAL candidate for Paterson Karen Howard has distanced herself from supporters – including an apprentice Anglican priest – who allegedly tampered with posters of her Labor opponent Meryl Swanson and shoved the husband of a state Labor MP.

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