Regina mayor lashes out over erroneous tweet
CBC News
Posted: Oct 4, 2012 1:59 PM CST
Last Updated: Oct 4, 2012 8:05 PM CST
Mayor Pat Fiacco sent out a couple of angry tweets Thursday after mayoral candidate Chad Novak said former Mayor Larry Schneider was his father-in-law. (CBC/Twitter)Regina Mayor Pat Fiacco was on the attack on Twitter Thursday, publicly criticizing one of the candidates for mayor.
Fiacco's strongly worded tweets came out after Chad Novak used his @chad4mayor Twitter account to say former mayor Larry Schneider was Fiacco's father-in-law, presenting it as election "trivia."
Fiacco, who is not running for re-election on Oct. 24, got on his Twitter account (@mayorfiacco) to point out that his father-in-law died seven years ago. He accused Novak of lying and making a fool of himself.
"Chad, please get help," Fiacco said in a second tweet. "You are destroying your reputation and your future. This isn't funny any longer."
That resulted in more tweets from Novak.
Here's the blow-by-blow on Twitter from this morning:
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