Ottawa councillor denies sending inappropriate messages on Twitter

OTTAWA — Embattled Ottawa Coun. Rick Chiarelli is facing criticism again, after a woman in Chicago says she received sexually suggestive messages from the councillor’s official Twitter account. Chiarelli’s office tells CTV News Ottawa his Twitter account was hacked and he did not send the direct messages on the social media site. There are at least three women sharing similar messages allegedly from Chiarelli’s Twitter account referencing a trip to Spain, one of them including mentions of topless beaches. The messages were sent over the span of several days. The first woman to go public was Cass Kulhanek, a comedian from Chicago. Kulhanek says she has no connection to Ottawa or the veteran College Ward councillor, but says she received a message from Chiarelli’s account stating he was a politician and referencing media work she could do in Europe. Kulhanek tweeted the images publicly on Thursday afternoon. The direct messages reference topless sunbathing, and a person saying, “I want fun! Not just work.” “I mean I thought it was peculiar that he immediately made a note of wanting to go to places that had topless beaches, or topless sunbathing, because that’s not my initial thought when I think about Europe,”…
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