A little too ironic, don't you think?
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A freak early-season snowstorm has paralyzed large parts of Maine, leaving thousands without power and putting a damper on today's election.
Some parts of the state recorded up to 21 inches of snow. CentralMaine.com reports that up to 65,000 residents were still without power as of Monday, and some towns had to change their polling locations because of the outage.
The state has posted an updated list of polling places that includes the relocated stations. Maine voters are electing both their governor and a senator on Tuesday. Some commenters have noted that the snowstorm may pose the biggest electoral concern for Maine's incumbent Republican Gov. Paul LePage, as it affected the more conservative central and northern part of the state but dropped only a little bit of snow in the more liberal region of the state near Portland.
LePage is locked in a tight reelection bid against both Democratic challenger Mike Michaud, and Independent Eliot Cutler. HuffPost Pollster's average heading into Tuesday's election had LePage and Michaud neck-and-neck, at 40.8 percent and 40.3 percent, respectively. Cutler looks likely to carve off a double-digit percentage of voters as well. - Huffington Post, 11/4/14
Here's a look back at LePage's greatest climate denying hits:
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Q: You’ve probably heard, in recent days, about the leaking of these memos from the East Anglia university, about the fact that the entire global warming thing is a hoax anyway.
LePage: Exactly.
Q: This is just one minor example of an impact on the economy based on flawed science. Not just flawed science — made-up science, lying science.
LePage: Exactly. Al Gore must be just laughing himself into a frenzy here. ‘Cause he’s making millions off it.
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Q: We have this Copenhagen treaty this week, a big hullabaloo in Copenhagen where they’re going to be discussing further ways to penalize the Western nations for our sins of having had an Industrial Revolution. They literally want us to pay reparations to poorer nations, to developing nations. Our president is going to show up at this Copenhagen summit …
LePage: I hope he wakes up this week …
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LePage: Right now the science on herring is they don’t know whether or not the herring is in trouble. They readily admit it: “We don’t know. But we want to reduce the quotas just in case.” Well that, to me, is flawed. In that case, you say, “I’m sorry, but we’re going to be fishing until you prove to us that the herring is in trouble.”
Q: That makes perfect sense to me. And that is a microcosm of the whole global-warming debate, you have people saying, “We’re going into a global warming.” You have people saying, “We’re going into a global cooling.” Nobody knows! Nobody really knows. The science is not established. All of what Al Gore might try to say. And yet we’re going to do all these things anyway, just in case.
LePage: Yeah, right, that’s the same. I think what you do is use the best available science and technology, and you try to be as good a steward of the Earth as you possibly can. And you don’t say, well, we’re not going to pay attention. I think you do pay attention to the science. And if you’re proven that there is some damage being done, you have to react to it, I have no problem with that. But to do it just in case, not knowing the science, I think is absur
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Q: Right, or to push forward an agenda, which is, look, if you really check into the background of the people pushing this, they are for global government, they could give a rip about the environment — well, they might care a little bit about the environment, but the big prize is control over people.
LePage: That is correct.
Q: That’s what they’re using this whole global warming scare for.
LePage: Absolutely what it is.
Q: So that’s what really bothers me. And then to have these reports of all the changing of data, the elimination of counterpoints on all these peer-reviewed journals, for papers that are just as well established in the science, maybe even grounded better in the science, and then saying, “We’re going to change the rules about how we accept papers.” All of this, I can’t understand how anyone with good conscience puts up with it. And then, despite all these revelations, these globalist, global-warming idiots are just marching forward as though nothing happened.
LePage: Exactly. They buy into the scams, and you know, we just need to fight back. - Grist, 9/27/10
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) suggested Thursday that global warming could actually be a good thing for his state, because the melting ice is opening up the Arctic for shipping.
"Everybody looks at the negative effects of global warming, but with the ice melting, the Northern Passage has opened up,” LePage said at a transportation conference Thursday morning, according to the Bangor Daily News. “So maybe, instead of being at the end of the pipeline, we’re now at the beginning of a new pipeline.”
The Northwest Passage, which consists of a series of channels through the Canadian Arctic, has long been seen as a potential shipping route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But it was typically covered in ice — that is, until climate change made it ice-free for the first time in recorded history in 2007. - Huffington Post, 12/5/13
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) vetoed legislation on Monday which would have authorized a long-term study to prepare the state's communities and businesses for the effects of climate change.
The bill called for a multi-agency work group to develop legislative guidelines over the next two years, utilizing a climate change report submitted to the state house in 2010.
"I have serious objections to Resolves that impose unfunded mandates on the Executive branch or when the substance of the work is already being done," LePage wrote in a letter to the legislature, dismissing the plan as merely "layers of workgroups and reporting."
The bill left funding of the study up to the state agencies involved. It also instructed the work group to look for "funding from nongovernmental sources to assist with costs," but didn't name any specific entities.
"Nearly every state to the south of Maine is taking the threat of climate change seriously, and so should we," a spokesman for the Natural Resources Council of Maine said, according to the Portland Press Herald. "Now is not the time to be sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that a warming climate is not a major challenge to our economy, coastal properties and way of life." - Huffington Post, 6/26/13
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