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Deval Patrick says gambling commission is distracted by McGee controversy

Says distractions affecting mission

By Mark Arsenault and Frank Phillips

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 11, 2012

The state gambling commission has become bogged down in “distractions,’’ just one month after beginning its work, hobbling the panel in its main mission to license up to three gambling resorts and one slot parlor, Governor Deval Patrick said Thursday. The governor, in speaking with reporters, seemed agitated by the week-long controversy surrounding the commission’s hire last week of a Patrick administration official, C. Stan McGee, who was accused of child sexual assault at a Florida resort in 2007.

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