Right-Wing Republican Paul LePage: “America’s Crazy Governor”

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Title from YouTube: “Gov. Paul LePage leaves profanity-laced voicemail for political rival”

Description from YouTube: “Maine’s volatile GOP governor Paul LePage called a political rival a ‘c–ksucker’ in a vile voice message while claiming to have devoted his life to “helping black people” — then later challenged the lawmaker to prove he was racist”.

This is what you get when you elect REPUBLICANS!

 

 

January 6, 2016 – “These are guys by the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty. These type of guys that come from Connecticut, New York. They come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave.”

 

Title from YouTube / MSNBC: “Paul LePage Scrambles As Republican Support Fades”

Description from YouTube / MSNBC: “Bill Nemitz, columnist for the Portland Press Herald, talks with Rachel Maddow about the latest developments from Maine, where Governor Paul LePage is trying to control the damage from his recent profane tirade”.

 

Title from YouTube / MSNBC: “Maine Governor’s Racist Rants Spark Outrage”

Description from YouTube / MSNBC: “Bill Nemitz, columnist for the Portland Press Herald, talks with Rachel Maddow about Maine governor Paul LePage fixation on race and how his most recent obscenity-laden meltdown has added calls for a mental health evaluation to calls for his resignation”.

 

Title from YouTube / CNN: Is Gov. LePage a political liability for GOP?

Description from YouTube / CNN: Maine’s Republican Governor Paul LePage is dodging reports that he accused the president of “hating white people.”

 

Title from YouTube: “Maine’s Gov. LePage leaves obscene voicemail for lawmaker”

Description from YouTube: “In response to allegedly being called a racist by a Democratic lawmaker, Maine Gov. Paul LePage unleashed an explicit verbal tirade. The message was left on the lawmaker’s voicemail, and now the governor is facing some tough questions. Jim Axelrod reports”.

 

How Did Mild-Mannered Maine Get America’s Craziest Governor?

What better way to start a governorship than to refuse to attend a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day breakfast and, when the NAACP complains, tell them, on camera, to “kiss my butt”?

Per the above article: “How Did Mild-Mannered Maine Get America’s Craziest Governor?”

“What better way to start a governorship than to refuse to attend a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day breakfast and, when the NAACP complains, tell them, on camera, to “kiss my butt”?

That’s how Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, introduced himself to the nation three years ago, and the Republican Tea Party favorite quickly followed up with a series of intemperate remarks and questionable actions that arguably garnered him more negative national media attention than any Maine politician since Sen. James G. Blaine, the so-called “continental liar from the State of Maine” whose 1884 presidential run was derailed by graft and corruption charges.

LePage’s first major initiatives as governor—to roll back all state environmental laws to weaker federal standards and stop a ban on bisphenol A (BPA), an endocrine disruptor, in baby bottles—were drafted by his special adviser, a registered lobbyist for many of the affected industries. LePage defended the restoration of BPA in bottles by saying, with a smirk, that the worst that could happen was that “some women may have little beards.” Even as that effort collapsed, crowds of protesters were on the steps of the statehouse condemning LePage’s removal of a mural illustrating the history of Maine’s labor movement from the Department of Labor because an anonymous letter writer had likened it to North Korean efforts to “brainwash the masses”.

 

Paul LePage says he’d go to jail before he expands Medicaid

WESTBROOK – The political debate over Medicaid expansion in Maine continued Thursday with Attorney General Janet Mills and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee slamming Gov. Paul LePage for continuing to block expansion despite voter approval. LePage, meanwhile, vowed this week that he’d risk jail time before putting Maine in “red ink” amid his ongoing battle with lawmakers over […]

 

Paul LePage Is Back!

Portland, Me.- On a cloudy spring morning, Maine’s ex-governor, 73-year-old Paul LePage, journeyed to the heart of his state’s largest, most diverse, and most progressive city to preside over the opening of a new Multicultural Community Center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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