LIBERAL candidates have been summoned to the party’s headquarters for crisis talks tomorrow morning after a would-be MP quit in disgrace last night after party officials were told of hundreds of offensive sexist and racist posts on his Facebook page.

Jack Lyons, who was standing for the marginal seat of Bendigo West, quit two hours after the Herald Sun informed party officials he had described the regional city as “needing an enema” and called its historical Golden Dragon Museum “ching chong gardens”.

The former publican is the second Liberal candidate to fall victim to social media.

Last week, Aaron Lane departed as a candidate in western Victoria after his anti-gay tweets hit the headlines.

Last night Party officials called candidates to check if they had any undeclared social media pages.

An email was later sent to all candidates calling them to a meeting at the party’s Exhibition St headquarters tomorrow morning to discuss appropriate social media use.

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In June, Labor’s candidate in Frankston quit over bullying claims at her old workplace.

Premier Denis Napthine said this morning that Mr Lyons’ comments were offensive and inappropriate but promised the Coalition would find a new candidate to stand in Bendigo West.

“We’ll be putting forward a new candidate in Bendigo West, giving people choice and options because Bendigo is poorly represented by the current candidates,” Dr Napthine said.

This morning deputy Opposition leader James Merlino said Mr Lyons’ views had “no place in our society”.

“Denis Napthine needs to come out and apologise to the people of Bendigo that he ever preselected this joker to run for a seat,” Mr Merlino told 3AW.

“He needs to make sure that there’s no one else in his team with these kinds of views.”

Mr Lyons had earlier defended his Facebook updates, in one of which he described women’s hair as a “part of the blur above where her t--- are”.

“They’re jokes, mate. I can’t help what’s there. I hope I haven’t offended anyone.

“I don’t think I have. I’m a normal Aussie living life and enjoying it.”

Other posts included a reflection that the best pick-up line was: “Hey, does this rag smell like chloroform to you?”

In another post Mr Lyons mocked poverty in Africa, saying if they live in mud huts and “have to walk 5 miles everyday for water ... why not build the f---ing huts closer to the f---ing water”.

He defended that thought on Monday, saying: “Isn’t that common sense?”

Mr Lyons said he was particularly fond of an update about the six great kings who had brought immense happiness into people’s lives: “Drin-King, F---King, Lic-King, Suc-king, Span-king and Wan-king.....”

“I’ve got that one on a T-shirt,” he said.

Mr Lyon’s Facebook page is also full of professions of his love of pornography including one in which he confessed: “You know you have a problem when every letter of the alphabet triggers a porn bonanza in your address bar …”

But Mr Lyons denied he was obsessed with pornography.

“I’m the same as everyone else,” he explained.

“A lot of stuff gets sent to you and you sometimes you might flick it on and sometimes you don’t. I don’t know, it’s not something I go looking for.”

As for his use of the term “Chinky”, Mr Lyons was at a loss to explain why he had referred to Asians that way.

“I don’t know. No idea. Isn’t it in most of the movies and stuff you see? Isn’t that in all the Hangover movies and all that?”

In a statement last night, Liberal Party State Director Damien Mantach said Mr Lyons had withdrawn his candidacy.

“His comments were written as jokes and were posted in a closed Facebook page some years before he became a member of the Liberal Party,” he said.

“However, Mr Lyons acknowledges the comments are juvenile and offensive. He has apologised unreservedly.”