LePage wont oppose Angus King for U.S. Senate in 2018

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

AUGUSTA, Maine — Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s political adviser announced Wednesday that the governor will not challenge independent U.S. Sen. Angus King in the 2018 election.

Brent Littlefield said in a written statement to reporters that LePage has accomplished improvements in the economy and the state’s fiscal status but that “there is more to do.”

“Therefore the governor will remain focused on the job at hand and not enter the United States Senate race in 2018,” reads the statement.

LePage has mentioned that he might oppose King’s re-election bid on numerous occasions. Earlier in his tenure, LePage also said he could be interested in running for the U.S. House of Representatives, but neither has materialized.

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Read more: http://bangordailynews.com/2017/05/10/politics/lepage-wont-oppose-angus-king-for-u-s-senate-in-2018/

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King would kick his ass.

yup

[IronLionZion]

1. LeTrump might get a job in the Trump administration

Secretary of insulting people, or something

[Cha]

2. Wonder what his polls are?

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Low, but they always were, and he was somehow re-elected

Gov. Paul LePage registered at 58 percent disapproval among Mainers in the latest survey conducted between May and September, which barely moved from the group’s past two surveys released in May 2016 and November 2015.

Only four governors — Republicans Sam Brownback of Kansas, Chris Christie of New Jersey and Rick Snyder of Michigan and Democrat Dan Malloy of Connecticut — had higher disapproval ratings than LePage.

Most of this survey was done before the governor’s latest controversy over remarks about black and Hispanic drug dealers and his profane voicemail to a Democratic legislator who criticized him, but LePage’s approval numbers have been pretty consistent over the years.

In biannual surveys from Critical Insights going back to 2011, he has ranged between 31 percent and 47 percent approval, most often falling within three points of 40 percent.

http://stateandcapitol.bangordailynews.com/2016/09/21/lepage-named-fifth-most-disliked-governor-in-national-poll/

[Cha]

4. That's what I thought.. he sure doesn't look too healthy.

Thank you for that, Muriel.

That's too bad about Gov Malloy, though

[dhill926]

5. too bad...

would have been fun watching the carnage...