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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaine’s LePage comes unglued after racial controversy
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maines-lepage-comes-unglued-after-racial-controversyMaine Gov. Paul LePages (R) record when it comes to racially charged rhetoric has long been problematic, but this week, the trajectory of this story took a rather alarming turn.
At a town-hall event on Wednesday, LePage said hes been collecting mugshots of every single drug dealer who has been arrested in Maine why hes proactively done this is unclear and 90-plus percent of those pictures in my book, and its a three-ringed binder, are black and Hispanic people from out of state.
Note, earlier in the year, the far-right governor said he just reads the names of the drug dealers and didnt care at all about race or ethnicity. This week, apparently, LePage dropped the pretense.
When reporters asked the governor the next day about his comments, LePage replied, Let me tell you something: Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers. You ought to look into that! According to the Portland Press Herald, the governor then stormed off, saying over his shoulder, You make me so sick!
At a town-hall event on Wednesday, LePage said hes been collecting mugshots of every single drug dealer who has been arrested in Maine why hes proactively done this is unclear and 90-plus percent of those pictures in my book, and its a three-ringed binder, are black and Hispanic people from out of state.
Note, earlier in the year, the far-right governor said he just reads the names of the drug dealers and didnt care at all about race or ethnicity. This week, apparently, LePage dropped the pretense.
When reporters asked the governor the next day about his comments, LePage replied, Let me tell you something: Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers. You ought to look into that! According to the Portland Press Herald, the governor then stormed off, saying over his shoulder, You make me so sick!
LePage? Unglued?
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Maine’s LePage comes unglued after racial controversy (Original Post)
KamaAina
Aug 2016
OP
democratically elected by the majority of voters. he's not alone in his beliefs nt
msongs
Aug 2016
#1
You can't come unglued if you were never really glued in the first place. nt
eppur_se_muova
Aug 2016
#7
msongs
(67,409 posts)1. democratically elected by the majority of voters. he's not alone in his beliefs nt
edhopper
(33,580 posts)2. not by a majority
He won because of third party candidates.
That is the lesson.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)3. Right, it is too bad that Mainers have to keep pointing that out.
The majority of us never wanted him, but we keep getting stuck with him. The image that LePage projects is so incredibly different from a typical Mainer. He really doesn't represent us well at all. I'm just glad we have term limits on govs in Maine, but I imagine we will be plagued with LePage running for something else or joining forces with Trumpster. LePage is full of himself now that he got elected twice, so I don't think he will go away quietly. I don't think he does anything quietly.
Maine-i-acs
(1,499 posts)4. 62% voted against this overt racist.
canetoad
(17,164 posts)5. Maybe planning
To do a Duerte Harry in Maine.
struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)6. "And this is why we shouldn't have highways!"
eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)7. You can't come unglued if you were never really glued in the first place. nt
3catwoman3
(24,000 posts)8. Your wording is a bit different than mine...
...would have been, but we are thinking exactly the same thing.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)9. Ironically, LePage is a brand of glue.