Asked about Maine hepatitis A case, LePage goes off on Obama, Ebola and immigrants (video)

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http://www.wcsh6.com/media/cinematic/video/18271179/gov-lepage-on-hepatitis-a-illegal-immigrants/

What a fucking idiot....

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1. Most important: Maine CDC refuses to release name of restaurant where others may have been infected

http://www.pressherald.com/2014/10/31/maine-cdc-restaurant-worker-may-have-exposed-patrons-to-hepatitis-a/
(link includes video of scene outside courthouse)

Rep. Richard Farnsworth, D-Portland, House chair of the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee, said the Maine CDC “has failed miserably” in recent weeks by not using science to make decisions.

“The CDC has panicked for no reason over one person who does not have Ebola. Meanwhile, they’re not concerned about the spread of a communicable disease where many people could have been exposed,” said Farnsworth, who decades ago contracted hepatitis A and was sick for months.

Hepatitis A is more transmissible than Ebola, according to the federal CDC.

John Martins, a spokesman for the Maine CDC, said in an email that releasing the name of the restaurant would “risk identifying” the employee, violating state law regarding patient privacy. Plus, he said, there was no public benefit to releasing the restaurant name because the 14-day period in which people who are exposed to the virus can receive a vaccine had passed.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. He may be an idiot, but

he's still the governor.

Let's hope that changes Tuesday.

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3. Nate is giving Michaud the edge

fingers crossed here.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Too bad Cutler didn't take a hike.

Things would be looking even better now.

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6. well, Angus switched his endorsement to Michaud

So there's that.

Nate said polls had shown that in a 2-way, ~2/3s of Cutler supporters would switch to Michaud.

And you can see from the video that LePage knows he's stepped in it. He thought he'd look big and strong beating up on a little nurse. Instead he lost, and now his CDC appointee looks like a hypocrital hack for trying to quaratine a healthy nurse while refusing to name a restaurant that was harboring and potentially spreading Hep A because "somebody might be able to guess the employee who had it."

[Brigid]

5. He's still pouting because . . .

Kaci Hickox got the better of him.

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7. he thought he'd look like a hero in time for the election.

Not the cowardly, hypocritical bully that he is.

I'm wondering what restaurant was harboring Hep A. Luckily I can't afford to eat out much. Or at all.