The candidate running for GOP state committee against current party chair Amy Carnevale is being aided by Sandy Tennant, the 72-year-old operative behind the infamous topless booze cruise of 1999 that ended the political career of ex-Congressman Peter Blute.

Maria Pia Perez bragged recently on social media on that she is being aided by Tennant. Perez has been endorsed as part of the slate supported by Jim Lyons, the former chairman who was ousted by Carnevale last year.

Lyons lost his job as party boss after four years in which he plunged the state GOP deep into debt, hired private detectives to probe his fellow Republicans, spawning several federal and state investigations while he failed to win a single open seat or defeat any sitting Democrats.

Perez’ platform prominently mentions her concern about “A Return to Pagan Antiquity.” Tennant, on the other hand, is best known for his weekday partying with Blute, then the boss of Massport. When one of the scantily-clad young women on the boat, the Nauticus, spotted the Herald photographer, she flashed him.

Blute stepped down from the top spot at Massport the next day.

It remained unclear last night whether Gidget — the woman photographed flashing the Herald in Boston Harbor on August 17, 1999 — is involved in helping Tennant fight “A Return to Pagan Antiquity.”

Perez of Lynn is running in the Third Essex Senate District in Tuesday’s election.

Reached by phone Sunday, Tennant said he would call or text the Herald back about his support for Perez. He did not return a message by presstime.

Perez, who could not be reached for a comment at her Lynn home, writes in a long online essay about her candidacy, “We are living in a time that’s ushering in a Dark Age. … We are seeing in our society a return to Pagan antiquity.”

She goes on to add that “in the post-Christian West, we have abandoned our Judeo-Christian heritage, and life is becoming cheap once again.”

Super Tuesday in Massachusetts will be as much about the top of the ticket as the bottom.

Peter Blute and Sandy Tennant step off the boat Nauticus after spending the afternoon drinking with friends and acquaintances back in 1999. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)