LePage: Asylum seekers ‘the biggest problem in our state’
Source: Bangor Daily News
Good morning from Augusta, where Tuesday began with a recognition day for Boy Scouts and ended with a Gov. Paul LePage town hall meeting in Freeport.
It was reasonably hostile territory for the Republican, who gave his normal stump speech on energy, economic, welfare and drug issues. But there were a couple of highlights.
At one point, LePage called asylum seekers the biggest problem in our state. That drew harsh reactions from some in the crowd who yelled, Shame on you, some of whom were escorted out of the overflowing room at the towns library.
He elaborated, saying that Maine often doesnt receive federal aid to help secondary migrants. Then he doubled down on a past, baseless argument that asylum seekers pose a public health threat, saying theyre bringing hepatitis C, tuberculosis, AIDS, HIV and the ziki fly, an apparent malaprop reference to the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus.
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Another day - another "Shit Show" from LePew
olddots
(10,237 posts)N.T.
mainer
(12,031 posts)And he's decided he's the only one qualified to be Maine Education Commissioner. For real.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,924 posts)The Tea party is founded on his kind of ugly misanthropy.
progree
(10,924 posts)and have names like D-Money, Smoothie, and Shifty, according to LePage:
LePage referenced new legislation aimed at traffickers, then delivered his roiling explanation.
"These aren't the people who take drugs," LePage said, in comments first picked up by the Portland Press Herald.
"These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty. These type of guys. They come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we've got to deal with down the road."
LePage denied using names like "Smoothie" for their racial connotation.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)jpak
(41,760 posts)Political_Junkie
(1,998 posts)Right now, he's the biggest problem in our state!
onehandle
(51,122 posts)LePage should be seeking asylum.
That is, seeking an asylum.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)I'm an old Californian and remember Ronnie Baby's cuts to mental health programs.
Pastiche423
(15,406 posts)during the time Saint Ronnie closed the state mental hospitals. The streets filled with mental patients.
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)houston16revival
(953 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Akicita
(1,196 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)He won election twice because the Dem and an independent split the Sane-American vote.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... who should be removed from office by any means necessary before he runs the whole state off a cliff.