2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMaine’s governor is completely unhinged - by The Editorial Board of the Washington Post
By Editorial Board September 27 at 7:03 PM
A THREE-RING binder has now exposed the three-ring circus of unhinged racism and ravings that are the hallmarks of Maines governor, Paul LePage (R).
Mr. LePage, who entered office in 2011 refusing to attend Martin Luther King Jr. Day events or meet with representatives of the NAACP, has a long history of racial animus, and this year he has outdone himself. In January, he attributed Maines opioid epidemic to guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty [who] come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home [and] half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave.
Challenged on that assertion last month, Mr. LePage, whom few in Maine regard as the sharpest mind in state politics, dug himself a deeper hole: Ninety-plus percent of those pictures in my book, and its a three-ring binder, are black and Hispanic people. And the next day: Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers.
Facts are inconvenient for Mr. LePage, who now appears to have been undone by them. A few weeks after his 90 percent-plus assertion, Maines Portland Press Herald published FBI statistics showing that the overwhelming majority of those arrested in Maine for drug offenses in 2014 were white; just 14 percent were black.
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Exilednight
(9,359 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)non-Mainers are known as "flat-landers"
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Maybe it is older folks. I hear out-of-staters the most.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)born-and-raised-in-Maine husband to be older folks, then you are correct.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)eShirl
(18,494 posts)Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)they failed to mention the episode in which LePage threatened to withhold money to a school if they were to hire a political rival of his, the Speaker of the Maine House, Mark Eves (D). LePage prevented Eves from getting the job and that led to investigation and an impeachment attempt that didn't pan out, which was entirely disappointing. LePage learned that he could basically do what ever the hell he wanted and get away with it and so he continues to do just that. Eves still has a lawsuit out against LePage for this incident.
http://bangordailynews.com/2016/08/02/politics/lepage-lawyer-asks-appeals-court-to-end-house-speaker-mark-eves-political-lawsuit/
eShirl
(18,494 posts)Such a maroon.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)We at least have some decent reps and senators who still want to do right by Mainers, but I think they botched the impeachment thing.