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GOP tea party Governor Paul LePage embarrasses Maine on a fairly regular basis with comments such as alluding a State Senator he disagreed with being “the first one to give it to the people without providing Vaseline." And off camera he once remarked that “Obama hates white people” at a function in a village adjacent to my home town; the reporting sources were actually two Republican State Legislators.
Currently the Governor has been promoting a crackdown on drugs that mainly increases enforcement resources but gives little attention to addiction remediation resources. He has as a result been ratcheting up the ‘law and order’ rhetoric as a result. Now, in his overreach for hyping up fear, the no bounds LePage has added this:
"These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty… these types of guys… they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, 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 have to deal with down the road.”
Oh yes, it’s on tape:
LePage is in hot water with a possible impeachment effort underway next week on another matter which involved threatening to withhold state monies from a private charter school if they hired the Democrat Speaker of the Maine House. There are lots and lots of reasons for LePage to go...he’s just added one more.