I think that the amount paid out in the payoff is important to judge just about how guilty he really was.

Is this the best guy you people could come up with, and so stupid not to realizie this would come out and be an issue. Governor Patrick, are you paying attention at all to what's happening in your state, your second term was a big mistake.

I agree with Representative Winslow. The commission has the responsibility to thoroughly vet McGee before before he is appointed executive director. These are serious allegations against McGee and the commission should exhaust all its resources to ensure the public that there is no history of illegal activity or corruption in McGee's past.

Why not hire Casey Anthony? I hear she's looking for work. Or better yet, Dominique Strauss-Kahn- he's probably better with numbers. But this is actually sort of a tough one. Should an allegation be enough to derail somebody's career? I don't know.

No certainty to this case at all, but there sure are some troublesome questions stuck at the bottom of this Globe story. "McGee. He later paid an undisclosed sum to settle a civil lawsuit with the accuser's family." Maybe to avoid a trial, the accused paid off the accuser's family? This may happen frequently in the world of civil legal matters. But on an allegation such as serious child abuse? Then we have the accuser's family being willing to travel to Masschusetts to appear before the state Gambling Commission, at least according to a lawyer purportedly representing the family. Don't out-of-course settlements that include payments from defendants usually include a non-disclosure agreement to keep the recipients of the cash from traveling around blabbing about what they charged so they got paid off? Why does this whold situation smell like a beachful of dead menhaden during a summer of plentiful bluefish in Boston Harbor?