"NYC Councilman Charged With Raping Woman" ANOTHER REPUBLICAN

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NYC Councilman Charged With Raping Woman
By Associated Press

Fri Aug 3, 10:16 PM

New York City Councilman Dennis Gallagher, right, appears in ...

NEW YORK - A city councilman was arraigned Friday on charges that he raped and assaulted a woman in his office just hours after they met in a bar.

Councilman Dennis Gallagher, a married father of two, turned himself in after a grand jury came back with the 10-count indictment on rape and assault charges. In testimony before the grand jury this week, he acknowledged an encounter with the 52-year-old woman but said it was consensual.

"He concedes that it was morally bad conduct on his part, but he absolutely and vehemently denies any criminal wrongdoing," said his lawyer, Stephen R. Mahler.

The woman alleged that after the July 8 meeting in the bar, he offered to drive her home but instead took her to his district office and attacked her.<snip>

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Gallagher, elected to the council in 2001, is one of three Republicans in the 51-member body.<snip>

http://www.comcast.net/news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTIC&fn=/2007/08/03/731164.html

[kestrel91316]

1. Let me guess: Another religious fundamentalist and member of the

rabid "family values" crowd?

Pardon me while I puke.

This afternoon I'm gonna go out and work on ruining the world while birdwatching.

[Nikki Stone1]

2. "Gallagher" sounds like a "good Catholic boy" to me, but I went to Catholic school with a lot of

Gallaghers.

[Botany]

3. Just one more "family values" type.

Meeting a friend @ a bar .... o.k.

meeting a friend @ a bar who is a women but not your wife ..... o.k. but in a group

taking that female friend who is not your wife back to your office after drinking and
not back to her place to drop her off ...... really bad idea

having sex with the women who is not your wife after meeting in a bar .... no

raping the women ..... a felony

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Gallagher is extensively involved in community and civic affairs. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Queens Republican Party, Past President of the Midville Civic Association, member of the Juniper Park Civic Association, and the Middle Village Property Owners and Residents Association.

He was a former member of the Catalpa YMCA Board and an activist with the Greater Ridgewood Youth Council. Gallagher is a CYO Coach at St. Margarets Sports Program where he has served as a sports mentor for twelve years for Boys' and Girls' Basketball. He has also served as a manger of the Ridgewood Glendale Middle Village Little League, is a social member of the Mario Lanza Lodge Order Sons of Italy and a member of the Glendale Kiwanis.

Gallagher has also been privileged to be a member of the New York State Senate Veterans Advisory Council and the New York State Senate Consumer Protection Advisory Board. He has been honored by the Juniper Park Civic Association, the Trailblazer District of the Boy Scouts of America, the Glendale Volunteer Ambulance Corp., the Fire Department of City of New York, the Ridgewood Communicare Health Center, St. Aloysius Spartus Sports Program, Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation, Richmond Hill Block Association, St. Pancras Sports Association, I.S. 93, P.S. 49, Queens Multi Service Senior Center, Catalpa Y.M.C.A., and the Blau-Weiss Gottscheer Club, Greater Ridgewood Youth Council, Special Olympics, Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal School and Maspeth Town Hall.

[marylanddem]

4. Nice guy - honoree of "our lady of the miraculous medal" school

Wonder if they gave him a miraculous medal...