Posted on 05/18/2006 6:31:54 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE, WI (AP) -- Alderman Michael McGee was arrested in Milwaukee County Circuit Court after a bailiff received a complaint from a woman who had a restraining order in effect against him.
The move took place Wednesday after Judge Clare Fiorenza told McGee she was throwing out a restraining order he had obtained against the woman, who claims she is pregnant by the alderman.
Kimley Rucker said McGee threatened her while Fiorenza looked for paperwork and her attorney, Russell Jones, said he also heard the remark. But McGee and his attorney, Tarena Washington-Franklin, both denied the alderman said anything while he was turned around facing Rucker.
"I didn't do nothing. I just turned around," McGee said.
Both McGee and Rucker had filed for restraining orders against each other after a March 31 confrontation in which McGee claimed Rucker scratched his face and Rucker said McGee twisted her arm.
McGee denied Rucker's claims of a longstanding romantic relationship. He said the two had sex once, in August, then claimed she had stalked him with unwanted phone calls as well as uninvited appearances at his home and at community meetings.
He also denied authoring what Rucker claimed were a sheaf of e-mails, some with explicit sexual content. McGee said the address from which the e-mails were sent is open to access by up to 10 of his current and former staffers.
The judge said McGee's claims lacked credibility, especially after Rucker's roommate and landlord both testified they had seen McGee in and outside Rucker's apartment several times after he claimed to have broken off contact with Rucker in August.
She said "common sense and the evidence" in the case indicated McGee and Rucker had carried on a lengthy affair, rather than the stalking McGee claimed.

"I didn't do nothing. I just turned around."
You're quick this morning! ;)
This is the same guy that was arrested outside of a Blockbuster Video when the clerks called the cops because he was malingering in their parking lot. There was a woman in the car with him, most likely this one.
Guess that was the "one time" they had sex, LOL!
He must be a RAT, otherwise the J-S headline would have been: "GOP Alderman arrested in courtroom dispute."
He must be a RAT, otherwise the J-S headline would have been: "GOP Alderman arrested in courtroom dispute."
Michael McGee is a black radical. Still stuck in the 60s.
Like father, like son . . .
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