'May your children all die from debilitating, painful and incurable diseases': Democratic Party official forced to RESIGN after tweeting death wish to GOP senator's aide

Allan Brauer lost his political position with a local Democratic Party chapter in California after he tweeted that a Republican speechwriter's children should die

The Democratic Party of Sacramento County, California scrambled on Friday to deal with fallout from a series of tweets its communications chair sent Friday, in which he wished the children of a speechwriter in the office of Sen. Ted Cruz would endure a painful death.

By day's end Allan Brauer was apologizing, but not before galvanizing conservative Republic tweeters against him in a virtual online bloodbath and losing his political position over what the party called 'appalling and inexcusable' comments.

Amanda Carpenter, a speechwriter and senior communications adviser to Cruz, the Texas Republican and tea party darling, tweeted her excitement Friday afternoon that GOP House members had removed Obamacare funding from a continuing resolution that would fund the government through December.

'GOP beat gun control, changed Obama's mind on Syria, is holding the line on amnesty,' Carpenter wrote. 'We can defund Obamacare, too!'



That's when Brauer pounced.

'May your children all die from debilitating, painful and incurable diseases,' he tweeted.

The Twitter backlash was near-instantaneous, but Brauer kept doubling down, calling her 'one of Ted Cruz's pubic lice' and insisting that the GOP 'takes bread from the mouths of starving children and medicine from the sick.'

Amanda Carpenter (R) and husband Chris Kinnan have two small children. She was once a columnist for The Washington Times and TowhHall.com

Sen. Ted Cruz has pushed for Obamacare's defunding, and for tougher immigration laws. His speechwriter drew the ire of a political opponent three time zones away on Friday Allan Brauer (L), shown with his husband, was elected Communications Chair of the Democratic Party of Sacramento County on June 14, 2012, and managed its website, social media accounts, e-mail lists, and press releases

After Carpenter tweeted that people should 'unfollow' him on Twitter, he responded that he was annoyed with the attention he had attracted from tweeting conservatives.

'[I'm] Busy blocking the tapeworms that have slithered out of hellspawn @amandacarpenter's a**hole,' he wrote. 'How's your day so far?'

@amandacarpenter May your children all die from debilitating, painful and incurable diseases. — allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) September 20, 2013

Busy blocking the tapeworms that have slithered out of hellspawn @amandacarpenter's asshole. How's your day so far? — allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) September 20, 2013

I'm being attacked on Twitter for wishing one of Ted Cruz's pubic lice to experience the pain her boss is inflicting on Americans. — allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) September 20, 2013

Yes, your party takes bread from the mouths of starving children and medicine from the sick, and I'm the problem. Got it. — allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) September 20, 2013

A self-employed freelance writer and gay-rights activist, Brauer serves as president of the American River Democrats and manages social media outreach for Jack Uppal, a Democrat who plans to challenge Republican Rep. Tom McClintock in 2014.

Uppal's campaign did not respond to a phone call seeking comment.

The Democratic Party of Sacramento initially told Yahoo News that it condemned Brauer's online choice of words, but only because it was a distraction from more civil ways of condemning Republicans.

' The problem with this kind of rhetoric,' the local party office said, 'is that it lets fringe characters – those who are actively trying to shut down the government – like Ted Cruz, off the hook. It’s never acceptable to wish physical harm against political opponents, regardless of how objectionable their policy priorities are.'

And then the entire universe of hateful, child-starving, health-care deniers determines that I'm what's wrong with America. — allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) September 20, 2013

Now I have the pleasure notifying my husband a California Democrat wished death on our kids. Sigh. — Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) September 20, 2013

@allanbrauer Thank you. I appreciate it. — Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) September 20, 2013

Brauer's Facebook page is a monument to Democratic politics, including a mural image of President Obama

Brauer himself ultimately offered a mea culpa, barely 90 minutes after he started his tirade.

Carpenter, a communications adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, previously worked for then-Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina

'I am truly sorry for my tweet,' he wrote to Carpenter. 'I was very upset and lashed out. Your kids are not fair game either. My apologies.'

'Thank you. I appreciate it,' came the reply.

Writing It Right For You , a consultancy where Brauer works, posted a defense of him late Friday, after the two were connected online.

The statement, titled 'Dealing with Irrational People,' wrote of conservative activists that 'for all of their snide comments, it still remains that private citizens can express their opinions on their own Twitter.'

The local Democratic Party of Sacramento County, however , showed Brauer the door an hour later.

Party chairwoman Kerri Asbury said in a statement that 'the comments by our volunteer communications chair are appalling and inexcusable.'