I thought maybe there was going to be a turnaround.
Michael McGee Jr. being out of the picture was a hopeful sign that the rule of law could take root in the 6th Aldermanic district.
Yesterday, the elder McGee dashed those hopes.
From The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
The elder McGee is a nut.
He tells his followers that "we aren't going to take this."
TAKE WHAT?
I don't think "Gatekeeper" McGee should be shaking down his constituents.
The community shouldn't take that.
That's precisely why McGee is sitting in jail.
What does the elder McGee mean by threatening to be "naughty"?
What does he have in mind? Is the Juneteenth Day violence the sort of naughtiness that McGee is talking about?
Is that what his threat means? Is he promising a reign of terror in Milwaukee?
The elder McGee is a shameless race-baiter.
To rally support, he's being racially divisive. He must know that sort of thing plays well among his base. Very sad.
McGee really needs to start paying attention. It's weird to hear him speak of "white Milwaukee." It continues to dwindle everyday. It's a majority "minority" city now.
African-Americans hold high positions in city and county government and law enforcement. This "white Milwaukee" McGee babbles about is getting to be an antiquated term.
There's a reason that the McGee family is being targeted: Criminal behavior.
When they behave illegally, they make themselves targets. The same goes for any other city resident.
Furthermore, McGee seems to have conveniently forgotten that no other charged alderman threatened to do physical harm to others. McGee would have a case if other aldermen had threatened to kill someone and weren't made to don jailhouse orange attire.
If at first you don't succeed, the race card will usually help out.
USUALLY, but hopefully not in this case. I want to give residents of the 6th District more credit than that.
Junior McGee damned himself. He's on tape, shaking down people of his district. He's an extortionist.
Prosecuting such behavior is the duty of city officials. Ignoring it would actually be an offense to the community.
It's a very weak case to suggest that McGee's treatment is racially motivated.
The people of the 6th District can do so much better than what the McGee family has to offer.
If McGee the younger is convicted and he loses his seat and McGee the elder attempts to hold on to it, the people of that district would be failing themselves if they elected him.
They'd be failing the community.
There would be no McGee factor in Milwaukee if some citizens weren't willingly granting the McGee family political power.
Michael McGee Jr. being out of the picture was a hopeful sign that the rule of law could take root in the 6th Aldermanic district.
Yesterday, the elder McGee dashed those hopes.
From The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Mike McGee, father of the jailed alderman, called his son's incarceration unjust during a speech Monday morning, adding "we aren't going to take this."
The senior McGee, formerly an alderman, promised to run again if his son is removed from office. He also vowed that he and his followers would be "naughty" in response to his son's case, but didn't elaborate.
McGee made his first public statement on the case against his son in a late morning news conference in front of the federal courthouse, calling the charges against his son "gossip," and saying the alderman's due process rights were being violated. Milwaukee police and federal agents stood watching as Mike McGee spoke.
"I am telling you all, we aren't going to take this," the senior McGee said through a bullhorn to a crowd of about 50 people. "We are just going to act as naughty as (prosecutors) are."
The elder McGee is a nut.
He tells his followers that "we aren't going to take this."
TAKE WHAT?
I don't think "Gatekeeper" McGee should be shaking down his constituents.
The community shouldn't take that.
That's precisely why McGee is sitting in jail.
What does the elder McGee mean by threatening to be "naughty"?
What does he have in mind? Is the Juneteenth Day violence the sort of naughtiness that McGee is talking about?
Is that what his threat means? Is he promising a reign of terror in Milwaukee?
Ald. Michael McGee is charged in state court with making a threat, election violations and breaking a court secrecy order. In federal court, he is charged with extortion and bribery.
...Ald. McGee, who is being held by the U.S. Marshals Service, has been moved to the Dodge County Jail from Milwaukee.
Lenny Boyer, an official with the marshals, said McGee was moved for security reasons, but declined to elaborate.
The senior McGee blasted that move as unfair. He said the case shows that "white Milwaukee" continues to target black people, specifically any member of the McGee family. He said no other charged alderman has been imprisoned and brought into court in a jail jumpsuit.
The elder McGee is a shameless race-baiter.
To rally support, he's being racially divisive. He must know that sort of thing plays well among his base. Very sad.
McGee really needs to start paying attention. It's weird to hear him speak of "white Milwaukee." It continues to dwindle everyday. It's a majority "minority" city now.
African-Americans hold high positions in city and county government and law enforcement. This "white Milwaukee" McGee babbles about is getting to be an antiquated term.
There's a reason that the McGee family is being targeted: Criminal behavior.
When they behave illegally, they make themselves targets. The same goes for any other city resident.
Furthermore, McGee seems to have conveniently forgotten that no other charged alderman threatened to do physical harm to others. McGee would have a case if other aldermen had threatened to kill someone and weren't made to don jailhouse orange attire.
Also Monday, Ald. McGee's defense attorney backed up a pending request to dismiss the state criminal charges for "selective, vindictive and retaliatory prosecution" by filing a brief to allege racially motivated prosecution against McGee.
If at first you don't succeed, the race card will usually help out.
USUALLY, but hopefully not in this case. I want to give residents of the 6th District more credit than that.
Junior McGee damned himself. He's on tape, shaking down people of his district. He's an extortionist.
Prosecuting such behavior is the duty of city officials. Ignoring it would actually be an offense to the community.
It's a very weak case to suggest that McGee's treatment is racially motivated.
The people of the 6th District can do so much better than what the McGee family has to offer.
If McGee the younger is convicted and he loses his seat and McGee the elder attempts to hold on to it, the people of that district would be failing themselves if they elected him.
They'd be failing the community.
There would be no McGee factor in Milwaukee if some citizens weren't willingly granting the McGee family political power.
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