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yonder

(9,631 posts)
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 05:13 PM Sep 2019

As a legislator, he sexually harassed a staffer. Now he seeks to join Caldwell council.

Idaho Statesman
Sept. 11, 2019

He just has no shame:

Former Idaho state Sen. John McGee, who resigned in 2012 after accusations that he propositioned a female staffer, wants to be a member of the Caldwell City Council. McGee said in a phone interview Monday that he has “certainly learned” from his mistakes and that he’s been “apologetic all the way” after paying a “pretty steep price” for his offenses.

McGee, now 46, went to jail for 39 days after he pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace in connection with the sexual harassment claim. He propositioned the staffer several times, including times when he grabbed her, when he asked her to perform oral sex on him, and when he locked the door to his legislative office in the Capitol and asked her to take her shirt off.

But wait, there's more:

That came just a few months after McGee pleaded guilty to drunken driving. McGee had been drinking at a golf course before stealing an SUV with a trailer, Ada County Sheriff’s Office officials said at the time. He then allegedly jack-knifed the SUV and the trailer in the yard of a home before getting out of the car, walking around, getting back into the car and going to sleep.

Barefoot, he told the owners of the home that he was looking for the “promised land.” When he was arrested, his blood alcohol content registered at 0.15%, almost twice Idaho’s legal limit of 0.08%. He spent Father’s Day 2011 in the Ada County Jail. Charges of felony theft and felony operation of a vehicle without consent were ultimately dropped, and McGee pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DUI.

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