Liberal Candidate Chris Brown Apologizes For Calling Women Bitches and Whores on Twitter

Proving the worth of his extensive background in media, a federal Liberal party candidate is apologizing for a series of drunken tweets in which he degraded women.

Chris Brown, the Liberal hopeful in Alberta's Peace River-Westlock riding, who holds a degree in journalism and currently works in public relations, is the latest politician to fall victim to a less-than-pristine social media past.

In mostly incoherent tweets from 2009, Brown used the unfortunate phrases "fucking bitch" and "your mother was a whore."

When he was put on blast by a Twitter user this week, Brown issued an apology.

"These comments were inappropriate and do not reflect the level of professionalism exemplified by those running for office," he said. He then explained that the loss of his partner in a car crash led him to an alcohol dependency, and booze and Twitter make terrible bedfellows.

He's just the latest politician in Canada's federal election whose social media skeletons recently emerged from the closet and proceeded to fuck shit up:

Ontario Conservative riding association director Sue MacDonell was fired Tuesday after Facebook posts in which she said native people are "allowed to break every law we have and bankrupt the country" and described Mrs. Universe winner Ashley Burnham, a member of the Enoch Cree Nation, as a "monster."

Toronto Conservative candidate Tim Dutaud was also given the boot this week, when a Youtube video showing him faking an orgasm during a crank call to a woman, emerged.

No list of failed election hopefuls is complete without Jerry Bance, the Conservative repairman who peed into a mug in the kitchen of a homeowner whose sink he was fixing. Bance was secretly being filmed by CBC at the time, which, to be fair isn't really a social media blunder, but who can get enough of this story? Bance, who was running in Scarborough-Rouge River resigned Monday.

In August, Ala Buzreba, a young Liberal candidate from Calgary, dropped out of the race due to controversial tweets in which she characterized one person a "waste of sperm" and advised another that their mother "should have used that coat hanger."

With seven weeks to go, it seems unlikely that these candidates will be the last to have their past come back to haunt them.

So for all you war room bosses out there: Why bother with negative ad campaigns when getting someone drunk and handing them a keyboard seems to be working just as well.

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