Ontario PC leader accused of sexual misconduct before election. How convenient.

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https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/patrick-brown-denies-sexual-misconduct-allegations-from-two-women-resigns-as-ontario-pc-leader-1.3774686

Patrick Brown has resigned as Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader after serious allegations of sexual misconduct from two women who spoke to CTV News.

In a statement released early Thursday morning, Brown called the allegations false but says he is resigning after consulting with friends, family and caucus members.

“I will remain on as a MPP while I definitively clear my name from these false allegations,” said Brown, who is 39.

Extended: Patrick Brown leaves Queen’s Park

A separate statement from Ontario PC deputy leaders Sylvia Jones and Steve Clark was released shortly after Brown’s and said they unanimously agree Brown couldn’t continue serving as the party’s leader.

“Mr. Brown is entitled to a legal defense and due process, but he cannot lead us into an election as a result of these allegations,” the statement read.

In interviews, the women allege inappropriate behavior by the rising political figure throughout his tenure as an elected official.

One was still in high school when she says Brown, a well-known Barrie politician, asked her to perform oral sex on him.

The other, a university student who worked in his office when Brown was a federal Conservative MP, alleges Brown sexually assaulted her following an event she helped organize.

Brown’s lawyer has responded, saying that Brown “categorically denies these false and defamatory allegations.”

In a hastily-called evening news conference, Brown further addressed the allegations.

“First I want to say these allegations are false. Categorically untrue. Every one of them. I will defend myself as hard as I can, with all means at my disposal. It’s never okay. It’s never okay for anybody — for anyone — to feel they have been a victim of sexual harassment, or feel threatened in any way. Let me make this clear: a safe and respectful society is what we expect and deserve,” Brown said.

After becoming aware of the allegations late Wednesday, a number of Brown’s closest advisors resigned.

Campaign Manager Andrew Boddington, Chief of Staff Alykhan Velshi, and Deputy Campaign Manager Dan Robertson released a joint statement saying: “earlier today, all three of us became aware of allegations about Patrick Brown. After speaking with him, our advice was that he should resign as Ontario PC Party leader. He did not accept that advice.”

As well, Ontario PC press secretary Nick Bergamini, staffer Ken Bossenkool and deputy campaign manager Joshua Workman all tweeted their resignations.

Both incidents are alleged to have happened inside Brown’s home in Barrie, Ont., after the women had been drinking in his presence.

Brown, a well-reported teetotaler, was not drinking alcohol at the time of the alleged incidents, both women told CTV News.

CTV News has agreed to protect the identities of the women who have come forward.

The first incident occurred more than 10 years ago. The woman, a high school student in Barrie at the time, said she and a mutual friend met Brown at a bar.

Brown then invited them back to his home and provided them with alcohol, though the woman was under the legal drinking age at the time.

She says she was drunk when Brown invited her for a tour of his home. When the pair entered the bedroom, Brown closed the door and exposed his penis to her.

“He pulled down his pants said, and I don’t know if he said ‘suck my dick’ or ‘put this in your mouth,’ but something along those lines,” she said.

The woman alleges that he then asked her to perform oral sex, which she did for a short time before stopping.

“It was like a controlling thing… like I just remember I wanted to go, but that wasn’t happening.”

She says she then left his house and went to a nearby friend’s place.

“He’s an old, single, politician preying on young girls. He’s just a sad person,” the now-29 year old said.

Another woman came forward with a similar story, detailing her time working for the MP in then-prime minister Stephen Harper’s government. She spoke to CTV News in an on-camera interview.

She said she met the then-Conservative MP in November 2012 on an Air Canada flight when she was 18, coming home from university.

Hours after the flight, at 11:21 p.m. — a time that was verified by social media accounts viewed by CTV News — Brown sent the woman a message: “Are you impressed I remembered your name? I am.. LOL”

Brown gave the woman his phone number and the names of Barrie bars that he’d be at that night, offering her help to skip any lineups, even though she was 18 at the time — below Ontario’s legal drinking age.

“I kinda laughed it off as an older man… hitting on me,” the former staffer said.

She didn’t take him up on the offer, but months later when she was looking for a summer job she reached out to Brown and asked if he had any openings or if he knew of other opportunities.

After an interview in his Parliament Hill office, Brown hired her to work in his Barrie constituency office.

Brown tasked her with organizing the Hockey Night in Barrie charity game he hosts annually. Emails from Brown viewed by CTV News confirmed this.

“You know you are my favourite :)” writes Brown in an email to the woman days before the Aug. 15, 2013 event.

At an after-party in a now-closed local nightclub, The Bank, the woman says Brown and others provided her with a string of free alcoholic beverages. She was by then legal age.

“It was too many to count,” the former staffer said.

When the bar closed, the party moved to Brown’s home, all captured on social media.

The woman says she was extremely drunk when Brown invited her and a male friend of his to Brown’s bedroom to look at photographs of a trip to Asia stored on his iPad.

Brown’s friend then left, leaving her and Brown to sit alone on the bed.

“The next thing I know he’s kissing me. Sitting beside me, kissing me and then I was, I kind of just froze up. He continued to kiss me and he laid me down on the bed and got on top of me. I remember consciously trying not to move my mouth and I was just not moving, so I was laying there immobile and he kept kissing me,” she said.

“I felt it was sexual. I could feel his erection on my legs when he was on top of me so I felt that it would have gone to sexual intercourse if I had not done anything,” she said. “I would characterize that as a sexual assault.”

“That scenario, like of a very inebriated young employee in the bedroom of her boss, alone with him, who hasn’t had a drop of alcohol all night, just that’s an intimidating situation and I was not sure what to do about it,” the former staffer said.

She told him to stop, saying she had a boyfriend and told Brown to take her home, which he did, driving her back to her parents’ house.

The woman said she did not report it to authorities or otherwise because she didn’t know what options she had, and tried to move on.

“I didn’t think that there was any sort of recourse that I could take because I did think this is something that in maybe in another job, I would go to maybe HR about. But I didn’t feel, I didn’t even know who HR was in this context. Particularly being in a constituency office. I mean, I just didn’t know what to do.”

Brown often travels to India. After the party, the woman says he pressed her to join him as his assistant on an India trip, promising all expenses would be paid. He also gave her a raise.

“He told me that I, you know, he thought that I would look really good on an elephant,” she said. “I remember thinking, well, ‘Would I have my own hotel room? … I remember thinking, is there some sort of expectation?'”

She later spoke with her father about the incident and the invitation.

“I just remember feeling so relieved that I told somebody,” the former staffer said.

CTV has spoken to her father, who corroborated her version of events. He encouraged her to reject the offer.

Three other people close to her also confirm that she recounted the incident with Brown to them in the months that followed.

The woman chose to return to work for Brown the following summer.

“The reason I kept working there was, I wanted to in some way and try and, despite the fact that this happened, I didn’t want to let this impede on what I saw then as a career opportunity.”

During the second summer, her job included driving Brown to various events. It was during these drives that she alleges Brown made inappropriate comments to her including about a woman he had sexual relations with, and about wanting to find an older version of her to marry.

“I felt at that point it was kind of part of the job,” she said.

His former staffer says she is speaking out now to support other women who have had similar experiences.

“I don’t think that any woman young or old should be subjected to that and put in a situation where they have to decide between the career opportunity that’s in front of them and being– taking themselves out of a situation that’s at best uncomfortable and at worst unsafe.”

Brown has denied these allegations.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

Surprise, surprise. Look, I’m not normally one to take one side over the other in politics, frankly, it seems as though the vast majority are crooks and it’s just a matter of trying to pick the one that’ll screw you over the least. But in this case I have to say it’s convenient that this happens now in an election year. People are getting sick and tired of that dyke Wynne screwing us here in Ontario time and again, but with this coming out it seems we may be doomed for another couple of years. The long and short of it is the other day as of writing this topic Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown held a press conference late at night to announce the allegations of “sexual misconduct” against him were false and, to his credit, at least he was going to fight them. But some of his closest advisors in his caucus have abandoned him and he stepped down as leader.

As I said before, this seems awfully convenient that this is happening now as Wynne is more-or-less f~~~ed this upcoming election and her toughest rival is now found out to have done this sort of thing. I don’t know, normally I’m not one for conspiracy theories but there it is. The timing is certainly suspect.

What do you guys think? Did Wynne set all this up to help herself win another election since it wasn’t looking too good that she would win otherwise? I mean, what are the odds that something like this would come out now, a few months out from the general election, with the Liberal party all but guaranteed to lose with all the BS they keep putting Ontarians through?

I, Lelouch Vi Britannia, command you, all of you, to Go Your Own Way!!

[Manspread MansplainerParticipant 4222]

It was a plot by that hideous hag Wynne. Her approval is 13%. If she wins Ontario is doomed.

No coincidence that Clinscum and Mike Obama were in town recently.

If women ran the world = It would become the shithole you are seeing.

[Branched offParticipant 11048]

When, when will the electorate tire of this bollocks? Only then will they stop doing it.

A woman is like fire -fun to play with, can warm you through and cook your food, needs constant feeding, can burn you and consume all you own

[Anonymous 54]

Get used to this.
It is a plot to keep Men out of office.

All Men will be charged for sex crimes when they run

C~~~s want to take over the f~~~ing planet.

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9604]

Just like Roy Moore. He ran for US senate and got accused of something 40 years ago (before I was even born) and got screwed out of the election. He was a victim of a woman’s big mouth. Luckily that accuser had her house burned down a few weeks ago.

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[Ranger OneParticipant 16836]

20 years ago, if I was drunk, and somebody asked me to suck their dick, I would have said “Suck your own dick” and left.

All my life I've had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. Now I'm like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitation, no doubts. The path is clear. And what are you? Alive. Everything else is negotiable. Women have rights; men have responsibilities; MGTOW have freedom. Marriage is for chumps. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart-R'as al Ghul.

[Deadly RaverParticipant]

Just keep it up bitches. One day the backlash will come and it will be bad.

Learn from the past, Control the present, and you will know the Future.

[KevinStylesParticipant 2580]

Ya that was 100% a planned and coordinated attack. Probably false as well but that doesn’t matter.

[ScarberianMPTGLParticipant 3286]

Deadly Raver wrote:

Just keep it up bitches. One day the backlash will come and it will be bad.

Oh man, that’ll be sweeter than chocolate-dipped ice cream…

I, Lelouch Vi Britannia, command you, all of you, to Go Your Own Way!!

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