An anonymous camera phone-wielding watchdog set off a Facebook firestorm against State Rep. Brandon McGee after a photo of his car parked illegally in a handicap spot circulated online.
McGee apologized publicly on both TV news and newsprint, but he told CT News Junkie he had to adjust privacy settings on his Facebook account after receiving death threats on the social media site.
McGee’s car had been identified by its easily-identifiable state legislator license plate and the picture was originally posted on Hartford blogger Kevin Brookman’swebsite.
Speaking on WNPR’sWhere We Live, David Collins, columnist for The Day of New London, said state legislators call a lot of attention to themselves by opting to use special plates.
“He’s a legislator; he should be passing laws that are supposed to be preventing people from doing things like that…If I were him I’d get a new plate,” Collins said.
Christine Stuart of CT News Junkie said state Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey sent out a statement Tuesday accepting McGee’s apology saying, “This is the end of it.”
Ryan King is an intern at WNPR.