Effort To Impeach Maine Gov. Paul LePage Dies In State House

[brooklynite]

Talking Points Memo:

A long-shot effort to impeach Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) failed Thursday when the state House of Representatives passed a motion postponing indefinitely consideration of the impeachment order. The postponement measure, introduced by House Republican Minority Leader Kenneth Fredette, passed 96-52.

The LePage critics pushing the unprecedented impeachment effort faced an uphill battle, as even the leaders of the Maine's Democratic House did not publicly support the effort. The impeachment order would have been the first procedural step toward impeachment. It would have initiated an investigation of LePage that could have ultimately led to his impeachment. It listed eight allegations of inappropriate behavior by LePage, including the accusation that he pressured an education organization into firing Rep. Mark Eves, the Democratic speaker of the House, as its president by threatening to block state funding to one of its charter schools.

Relations between the governor and state legislators have been tense for years, but were further inflamed by comments he made last week that New York drug dealers "impregnate" white girls in Maine.

[underthematrix]

1. This!

"Relations between the governor and state legislators have been tense for years, but were further inflamed by comments he made last week that New York drug dealers "impregnate" white girls in Maine."

This comment by the gov is about Maine's white working class electorate. LePage is a representation of who they are because they voted for him and their Gov. LePage's racist remarks are consistent with an old but revived GOP stereotype.

I'm tired of white people singling out the racist they voted for and pretending like it's not their racist.

White people are seeing the death of whiteness as an economic and cultural paradigm and they're mad as hell about it.

White people need to get honest with themselves and own who they are and what it means to keep promoting the toxicity of whiteness as the world leaves them behind.