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Maines former governor who left office last month argued the Electoral College is necessary to keep white people in power.
What would happen if they do what they say theyre gonna do is white people will not have anything to say, Paul LePage told a WVOM radio show Tuesday when asked about abolishing the system currently used to elect presidents. Its only going to be the minorities that would elect.
LePage, who left office Jan. 2 and now lives in Florida, said making every vote equal would give too much power to states like California, Texas and Florida, where larger swathes of people live.
The 70-year-old Republican served two terms as Maines governor and had one of the highest disapproval ratings among governors nationwide during his last year in office. Hes no stranger to racial controversy, either.
In 2016, LePage complained guys by the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty come to Maine from New York and Connecticut to sell drugs and half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave.
Later that year, LePage called Latinos the enemy during a bizarre press conference where he tried to explain why hed hurled homophobic remarks at a reporter.
The enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in are people of color or people of Hispanic origin, he said.
On March 1, a proposal to elect U.S presidents with a popular vote rather than doing so through the Electoral College process will be considered by the Maine legislature.
LePage called the bill insane and worried that white people, who make up more than 61% of the nations population and have accounted for all but one of the nations presidents, are gonna be forgotten people.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/maine-governor-praises-the-electoral-college-for-keeping-white-people-in-power/ar-BBUdJ6A?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)Then maybe we can forget about him. What an idiot.
Rhiannon12866
(205,664 posts)But I sure agree with you about LePage - he's a one-person deplorable...
rampartc
(5,425 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Nothing is done about fixing it because it enables redumbliCONS to win Presidential elections when they have not won the popular vote.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)political racists are gone.
murielm99
(30,749 posts)we have a new generation of white political racists.
I just received my Intelligence Report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. There are more hate groups than ever. They all have young leadership.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)racism, our nation is doomed to self destruction.
murielm99
(30,749 posts)and changing minds. Where necessary, we need to throw their asses in jail.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)If we dont well be the ones in the gulag.🤔😳😱
sellitman
(11,607 posts)He is a tumor on this country.
Hekate
(90,737 posts)At least LePage has always been honest about what he is.
IronLionZion
(45,469 posts)There was a time when Anglo-Saxon Americans would have been hostile to his French ancestors
What an asshole.
littlemissmartypants
(22,706 posts)forklift
(401 posts)to say "former" governor. I had an inkling that it was LePage but I couldn't tell until I clicked .
eShirl
(18,495 posts)She's the anti-LePage.
Botany
(70,532 posts)n/t
eShirl
(18,495 posts)It's as plain as the nose on his face.
lastlib
(23,252 posts)AND the one in his head.....WHAT a DIRTBAG!
akraven
(1,975 posts)dedicated to the USA, and know the law.