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Allegations vs. Dem hack fly under the radar
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com

It’s been almost seven weeks now since a $115,000-a-year Deval Patrick hack named Carl Stanley McGee was arrested at a posh resort in Florida and charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in a steamroom.

Yet the assistant secretary of policy and planning in the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development remains on “unpaid leave” - not fired, in other words.

McGee was arrested Dec. 29 and continued drawing a paycheck until Jan. 7. Granted, he is innocent until proven guilty, but what about the appearance of impropriety? These are not frivolous charges - the platinum-haired fop’s bail was set at $300,000.

Suppose this had happened in a Republican administration - say, Mitt Romney’s. What if a conservative, heterosexual GOP lawyer who worked for Mitt had been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl?

You think it would have taken six weeks for the story to break? And now it’s practically disappeared. McGee has already gotten one continuance, which raises the question of whether a broom is being readied.

According to the cops, Deval’s minion first approached the boy in the men’s room and struck up a conversation. The next day the kid was in a steamroom when McGee came in, sat down beside the child, and, according to the police, dropped his towel. You can guess the rest of the sordid story.

Compare McGee’s alleged crime to the arrest last summer of Sen. Larry Craig. All he did was assume a “wide stance.” Or Rep. Mark Foley. He got drunk and wrote some randy e-mails to pages. Why are they run out of office and McGee can hang in there?

Could it possibly be related to the fact that Craig and Foley are Republicans, and McGee, like reprobate gay Reps. Barney Frank and Gerry Studds, are liberal Democrats? By the way, McGee’s lawyer, Charles Rankin, did not return a call yesterday.

McGee’s co-workers, according to one report, were told only that he was “sick.” No kidding. Sadly for McGee, he’s not in Massachusetts anymore. He’s on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Unlike here, none of the judges in Lee County were appointed after donating big bucks to Barney Frank and George Rogers. The likes of Maria Lopez, Richard Moses and Margaret Marshall do not exist in the Sunshine State.

McGee must be shocked by his predicament. He’s used to getting a free ride. When he got “married” to one John Huston Finley IV in 2005, he got a write-up in The New York Times [NYT].

The wedding story in the New York Times mentioned how when the alleged perp’s mom met her son’s future groom, she noticed a painting of Finley’s grandmother. McGee’s mom remarked to her son’s boytoy how beautiful his granny was.

To which John Huston Finley IV replied, “With a fur and pearls, I could look just as beautiful.”

This is what they call “All the News That’s Fit to Print?”

And that wasn’t Carl Stanley McGee’s last puff piece in a New York Times-owned sheet. The Globe last year named him one of the 25 Most Stylish Bostonians. Among the questions he was asked was, where do you get your fashion ideas?

Among others, he mentioned Brad Pitt, George Clooney and even Daniel Craig. Surely he meant to say “Larry Craig.”

Then he mentioned the fashion challenges of his platinum hair.

“You cannot wear pinstripe suits and have my hair color.”

Oh, you’ll manage somehow, Stan, should you move to cellblock 10.

“I’d have to say I’d be hard pressed to live without black tie,”he sniffed. “It would significantly impact the things I do and the invitations I accept.”

Why doesn’t Deval tender an invitation to him? To resign.

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