St. Catharines Councillor Andrew Petrowski is being condemned and told to resign for sending out an email to 95 people to which he had accidentally attached a picture of a nude woman sitting in a chair. It appears that Petrowski was just as horrified as the recipients of the mail (if they were) which has so far brought a demand for his resignation from Niagara Regional Chair Alan Caslin. It seems careless beyond belief that Mr. Petrowski had such photos on his municipal laptop. Pierre-Auguste Renoir didn’t have to worry about email when he was keeping pictures of nude women but modern men (and women) would surely be alert to this possibility. Petrowski was responding to an email from another regional councillor regarding a construction project around 1:30 p.m. Monday when he attached the image. The Regional Chair, Alan Caslin, called the conduct reprehensible and unacceptable for a regional councillor. For his part, Petrowski said: “This was sent in error as a terrible message by someone who was using my iPad I thought to send a private message I am very sorry for this unacceptable and inappropriate transmission.” There seems to be history feeding the calls for resignation. The CBC says Petrowski has previously described himself on Twitter as “Pro-Trump, Pro-Nationalism, Pro-Life, Pro-Jesus, Pro-Constitution, Pro-Speech, Anti-LEFT, Climate Change is Natural. #MAGA.”
