Deval Patrick Watch: Shock And Awe

February 08, 2008

Shock And Awe

More on the latest scandal rocking the Patrick administration.

Close associates of a top Patrick administration aide accused of sexual assault are reacting with shock over allegations that Carl Stanley McGee performed sex acts on a 15-year-old boy in a Florida hotel steam room.
The accusations against McGee are outlined in a police report that charges him with violating Florida’s sexual battery laws in a Dec. 28 encounter at the Gasparilla Inn & Club in Boca Grande.

The report says McGee approached the youth and engaged him in small talk in a restroom on Dec. 27. The next day, McGee and the boy were in the steam room when McGee allegedly removed his towel and began engaging in sex acts, the report states.

McGee, 38, due to be arraigned Feb. 11, is on unpaid leave from his $115,000-a-year post as assistant secretary of policy and planning in Patrick’s economic development office. Friends reacted with disbelief yesterday to the allegations. McGee, a Harvard Law graudate, is considered a rising star in the Patrick administration.

UPDATE: More from the Globe and Herald.

SECOND UPDATE: From Aaron Margolis.

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Comments

Now I know what Deval means when he says "we should reach for that"

Posted by: mike at February 8, 2008 07:31 AM

I wrote up a few comments on this story yesterday: http://semper-fido.blogspot.com/2008/02/arrest-of-deval-patricks-top-aide-carl.html

This story has somewhat been buried. Do you think this would be the case if it had been a Republican governor's top aide?

Also what does this say about the real intentions of an organization like Massequality, which he headed? One hesitates to tar an organization from its leadership; however, Mr. McGee had a wedding larger and grander than my own, and yet he is off and "running into" 15-year-old boys in murky circumstances, nary a few years later. Is it really marriage that is being pursued, or changing the range of acceptable social mores? What does it say about Deval Patrick's judgment in choice of chief policy aides?

Posted by: Winston Churchill at February 8, 2008 10:34 AM

I think that we can now expect the obvious from our beloved Governor Patrick... A newly created cabinet post for one Mr McGee.
Namely the SORB (Sex Offender Registry Board). I am quite sure they could use a qualified sexual deviant (Pedophile)to root out the rest of the states miscreants! If they don't make him him Secretary of Public Safety...then maybe a LEVEL 3 designation is in order.

Posted by: K.K. at February 8, 2008 02:37 PM

"Mr. McGee certainly has earned a promotion, and I'm just the man to make it happen. Together I can."

- Casino Deval

Posted by: Phil at February 8, 2008 09:57 PM