Gov. Paul LePage's state budget veto overriden in Maine. A blow to Crazy Paul aka Governor VASELINE.

[RBInMaine]

Last edited Wed Jun 26, 2013, 09:11 PM - Edit history (1)

Sadly, almost all of Crazy TeaBagger Maine Gov. Paul LePage's vetoes have been sustained because there are just enough TeaPubs to sustain them. Often they will flip from having supported bills to sustaining vetoes. It is disgusting since so many good bills have been vetoed by this radical, even some with huge bipartisan support on the initial votes until the TeaPubs flip. Dems have the majority in the legislature, but you need 2/3 to override, and there are enough R's to block the overrides. ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A MAJOR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN D's And R's !! (We have seen MANY such differences this week.)

However, today, in the biggest legislative fight so far, the LePage veto of the state budget compromise did get overriden. The LePage two-year state budget proposal gutted local revenue sharing and eliminated property tax relief programs which would have caused a massive property tax increase up and down the state. It was hated even by Republican local officials. Since R's wouldn't bend on suspending their budget-busting tax cuts for the rich passed last session before D's re-took the legislature, those on the appropriations committee had to agree to temporarily raise the sales, meals, and lodging taxes by very small amounts to restore much of the lost state revenue sharing subsidies for towns and cities. Some of the LePage measures remain, but the compromise measure is a much better alternative. The alternative budget passed appropriations unanimously. LePage vetoed it because of the temporary revenue increases, but, again, his measure would have exploded property taxes. He lied and tried to say it wouldn't, but it would have even with local level cuts. His proposal was hated and testified against up and down the state. And if his veto had been sustained, it would have caused a state government shutdown thus destroying our credit rating and throwing the state into financial chaos. Overriding the LePage veto stopped that disaster. Enough R's knew they would be serious toast if they had sustained this one. They are already in serious trouble over other issues and having Crazy Paul glued to them.

So, thanks to DEMOCRATS, some common sense and moderation prevailed in the end, and TeaParty Paul didn't get his way on this one. Remember, this is the guy who last week verbally attacked Maine Dem State Senator Troy Jackson saying that Jackson was "giving it to Mainers without providing Vaseline". Crazy Paul is well known for his very foul mouth. Now he is called "Governor Vaseline". That is how he will go down in history. He is a true TeaRadical through and through who thinks everything has to be his way or the highway. He is a corporate toady who takes his marching orders straight from ALEC, the Koch Brothers, Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh. Just disgusting.

[bluedigger]

1. He really stepped in it last week.

You can try to scrape it off, but the smell stays with you.

[RBInMaine]

2. Just the latest in his very long list of nasty and disgusting comments. He's unfit to govern.

[southernyankeebelle]

3. Let's hope Mainers will get rid of the rest of the Teapublicans.

[RBInMaine]

5. Took back the whole legislature last fall, but still enough of them to sustain his vetoes.

[Rowdyboy]

4. I would ask why Mainers elect such an ass but I already know....Eliot Cutler....

When a "progressive" splits the vote with a Democrat nasty shit happens. And I believe Cutler has already announced he's running again

Wish you guys luck with that.

[magical thyme]

8. has Cutler announced? Last I saw he was considering it...nt

[busterbrown]

6. Lets face it...

Paul LePage is the kind of man who within a heartbeat would support a roundup of LGBT, Immigrants without proper documentation, Leftists, Socialists, Unionists and anyone else he feels is a threat to his Country.. There are several others such as Lepage, who currently reside in political office under the teabagger/ right wing, religious zealot label.. These people are as bad as as some of the worst dictators this world has ever known.

How could one dispute this?

[Cha]

7. Thanks to DEMS! Good news from Maine, RB!

To Gov Vaseline.. who is his own worst enemy. May he keep on keeping on with his stupid ass mouth.

K&R

[RBInMaine]

9. Yup. If R's still had the legislature we would have just been hammered with the LePage budget.

[RBInMaine]

10. Also just overrode the comprehensive energy bill that he vetoed. MORE GOOD NEWS.

[Cha]

11. Oh, I bet Vaselinehead is spittin' mad!

to DEMS!

thanks RB

[RBInMaine]

12. Yup. Now he's talking seriously about NOT running in 2014. Can't take the heat I guess.

[Cha]

13. Yeah, can't imagine why. Something to do with how

incompetent he is and that he only got in a fluke?

[RBInMaine]

14. He got in because it was 2010 AND liberals and moderates split between 2 others running.

One lesson we must learn from this disaster of a Governor is what a horrid mistake 2010 was. In our case, it had much to do with the vote being split in a multi candidate race which allowed LePage to get in with 38% of the vote. But is was also about it being 2010 with R's coming out strong and too many Dems staying home, and too many voting early for the Dem instead of waiting to see who had the best chance to beat LePage. (We do generally have strong turnouts in Maine, but still, there were too many Dems who didn't vote.) Finally, we don't have a run-off system here. If we'd had a run-off system, we would have elected the moderate Independent Elliot Cutler.

[Cha]

15. Damn! History lesson to be learned so it won't be

repeated!