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The man famous for getting Rob Ford elected the mayor of Toronto asked for help in dealing with alcohol addiction on Twitter following a car crash Sunday in the Windsor area.

Essex County OPP responded around 2:20 a.m. after a car crashed in front of a house in the 6700 block of Holden Road in Tecumseh. Police said a grey Lexus was headed south on Holden when it went off the road and struck a concrete culvert. The driver wasn’t hurt. But police said officers arrested him at the scene when he showed signs of being drunk.

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Nectarios Kouvalis, 40, of Amherstburg, is charged with impaired operation of a motor vehicle and exceed 80 milligrams blood alcohol content.

When the Star contacted Conservative campaign strategist Nick Kouvalis Monday on his cellphone to ask about the charges, he would only say “can’t talk about that.” Though Kouvalis was unwilling to discuss the charges, he did address the incident in a series of tweets Monday afternoon, telling followers he had been struggling with alcohol for years.