<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">One small step for John McGee, one giant step for Human Rights. Now, the only question is if he was <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN>sober</SPAN></SPAN> when he resigned or is he going to lawyer up again and try to take the resignation letter back?</SPAN></div>
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<DIV>Courtesy of the <SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>Coeur</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>d'Alene</SPAN> Press at:</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Sen. John McGee has resigned from the Idaho Legislature, amid allegations of sexual harassment of a female senate attache, reports the Associated Press.</DIV>
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<DIV>The Attorney General has been asked to investigate the allegations.</DIV>
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<DIV>The four-term Republican senator from Caldwell turned in a resignation letter this morning.</DIV>
<DIV>Sen. Brent Hill, the President of the Idaho Senate, said it was McGee's decision to step down.</DIV>
<DIV>McGee had been the caucus chairman, the fourth ranking post in the Senate.</DIV>
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<DIV>McGee did not immediately return telephone messages left Wednesday by the Associated Press.</DIV>
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<DIV>The resignation caps a difficult year for McGee. McGee was arrested on June 19 - Father's Day. McGee began drinking at a Boise golf tournament, and says he largely blacked out and simply doesn't remember the details of what happened next.</DIV>
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<DIV>According to police, McGee took a Ford Excursion and cargo trailer from the southwest Boise home of a "complete stranger" and got it stuck in a yard. A breath test showed McGee's blood-alcohol content at nearly twice the legal limit.</DIV>
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<DIV>Last summer, McGee pleaded guilty to drunken driving in a deal that erased accompanying auto theft charges. He served jail time and paid restitution for a stranger's vehicle that he damaged.</DIV>
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<DIV>McGee's reputation was further bruised over the summer when the AP reported that despite having a home just 26 miles from the Capitol, he had been claiming a $122 per <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>diem</SPAN> during the Legislature that adds up to some $6,000 annually. The money is meant to defray the cost of a second residence in Boise, but McGee was spending nights at his parents' house in Boise.</DIV>
<DIV>Most southwestern Idaho lawmakers claim a $49 per <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>diem</SPAN>.</DIV>
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<DIV>At the start of the 2012 session, McGee apologized to his colleagues for his actions and survived efforts calling for him to step down from his leadership post.</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>Seeya</SPAN> later, Moscow.</DIV>
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<DIV>Tom Hansen</DIV>
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<DIV>"If not us, who?</DIV>
<DIV>If not now, when?"</DIV>
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<DIV>- Unknown</DIV>
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