A pol walks into a bar ...: "Editorial by Daily News"
When it comes to judgment, Queens Councilman Dennis Gallagher is lacking. Sunday night, after spending hours in a pub, the married Republican, 43, brought a woman, 52, likewise married, from the bar to his district office. Under almost no circumstances could this be construed as wise.
Something happened in Gallagher's office. His partisans contend all was consensual, but the woman reported that Gallagher sexually assaulted her. Cops raided the office in search of evidence, Gallagher provided a DNA sample and his name appeared in the news. Which is why, looking at the facts in the light most favorable to him, going to your office for hookup with a pickup is, as we said, hard to construe as a show of elected wisdom.
Now Gallagher has gone completely off the dial by complaining he is being victimized in the same way the Duke lacrosse players were victimized. The councilman may, indeed, be guilty of nothing more serious than boozy, low-rent adultery, but he has not been indicted by a runaway prosecutor on the basis of false evidence. He has just made an ass of himself - and perhaps much worse.
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