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Sen. McGee: ‘My bad decision-making led to all this’

Sen. John McGee, R-Caldwell, spoke with the Idaho Press-Tribune on the eve of a closed-door Senate GOP caucus to discuss whether he'll continue in his Senate leadership post, as majority caucus chairman, after the bizarre Father's Day incident in which he was arrested for DUI after jackknifing a stranger's SUV on a neighbor's front lawn. McGee told the newspaper that his drinking after a golf tournament led to the events, most of which he doesn't remember; he also said he's undecided about whether to seek a fifth term in the Senate in what had been considered a promising political career. You can read the Press-Tribune story here. Senate Republicans are scheduled to meet in caucus at 10:15 a.m. on Wednesday.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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