ME Gov LePage Goes on Racist Rant

[tishaLA]

Gov. Paul LePage made a racially charged comment in Bridgton last night, according to a Republican operative who is critical of the state’s top executive.

Lance Dutson, who runs the “Get Right Maine” website, which seeks to regain a more moderate brand of Republicanism, reported the comment on Thursday afternoon.

“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,” Dutson quoted LePage as saying. “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.”

Dutson called it “one of the most offensive statements yet from this governor.”

Portland Press Herald

[Scuba]

1. The incredibly beautiful town of Bridgeton deserves better than that racist asshole.

[randys1]

2. The american people must like this guy, otherwise he cant win elections.

When America stops being the rabidly racist society that it is, this will go away.

[cali]

4. Wrong. First,only Mainers have voted for him. Secondly, he's never gotten close to a majority

[randys1]

5. So Republicans arent voted into office all over the country? good news that is

God what I would give to be wrong...

[cali]

7. That isn't the claim you made in the post I responded to.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. The American people? Try 294,533 Republicans in Maine. Not even a majority, he won with 48%

265, 125 votes for the Democrat, 51,518 for an independent.

[angrychair]

10. I tend to agree

If he was elected, it was the will of the people, if they voted or not.
In this case, Maine had the highest voter turnout in the country in 2014, 59.3%, they still re-elected this waste of space.
Might not have been a majority but he is still there.

At some point, I can only hope, people in WI, MI, ME, TX, MD, OH and so on will get tired of being embrassed, drinking lead or having the concept of equal rights for everyone shit on and actually get off their ass and vote.

Fyi, I am sure people work very hard to GOTV but it doesn't mean it's their fault that people don't vote. People have to make the individual decision to get out and vote. People have to believe voting will make a real difference.

[safeinOhio]

3. My prayer for these people

May all of your grand kids be gay and tan.

[First Speaker]

8. This guy is the worst of the worst...

...God knows, there's competition. Brownback, that clown in Kentucky, Cruz, Trump, Steve King, Lady Batboy, ie Bachmann...but no one quite reaches the "stature" of LePage...

[StevieM]

9. Here you go.

I put this post up last month. I am not sure what the deadline is to respond, but I think you can still add your comments.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027461948