LePage leaves protest note on Golden election certificate

[jpak]

Source: Portland Press Herald


In defiance of a voter-approved, ranked-choice election law Maine's outgoing Republican governor wrote that the Democratic challenger's victory over incumbent Republican Congressman Bruce Poliquin race was "stolen."

Gov. Paul LePage signed off on the state’s first-in-the-nation ranked choice election to Congress on Friday, but in doing so he also left a note of protest against the voter-approved election law that propelled Democratic state Rep. Jared Golden to a victory over incumbent 2nd District Republican Bruce Poliquin.

LePage initialed Golden’s certificate of election but also wrote “stolen election” beside it before sharing a photo of the certificate on Twitter with an additional comment.

“I’ve signed off on the CD2 election result as it’s no longer in federal court. Ranked Choice Voting didn’t result in a true majority as promised-simply a plurality measured differently. It didn’t keep big money out of politics & didn’t result in a more civil election #mepolitics,” LePage’s official account tweeted.

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Read more: https://www.pressherald.com/2018/12/28/lepage-leaves-note-of-protest-on-golden-election-certificate/

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Cry Baby

yup

[LisaM]

1. Considering that he only won because of a split electorate....

that's especially rich. But irony is absolutely lost on these people.

[edbermac]

2. So long, Asshole.

[pecosbob]

3. Maybe you and Joe Arpaio can get together and hang out

and yell at the TV together...

[The Wizard]

4. Open up an investigation into LePage

Make his squirm.

[House of Roberts]

5. Only a Republican can disrespect the will of the electorate.

Ranked choice voting is just common sense, and eliminates the need for runoff elections which cost more money.

[YessirAtsaFact]

7. If states used ranked choice on their presidential ballots, people could vote 3rd party w/o harm

Jill Stein running against Hilary Clinton won't make as much much difference, because most of Stein's voters would have Clinton as a second choice.

It's more democratic, so Repugnant Goons hate it.

[SCantiGOP]

11. And Bill Clinton probably wouldn't have won

Most Ross Perot votes would have chosen Bush.

[YessirAtsaFact]

14. Nothing is perfect. It would have prevented both Bush 43 and Trump from winning

nm

[Drunken Irishman]

15. This isn't true...

All you have to do is look at the polls prior to Perot jumping back in the race and compare them to after he jumped back in.

At the end of September, before Perot announced his return to the race, Clinton led Bush 51-35 - after announcing his return, Clinton's lead over Bush shrunk to 47-35-10. Had Perot stayed out of the race, it's likely Clinton wins by a much larger popular vote.

Ultimately, according to exit polls, Perot votes were evenly split between Bush and Clinton. Certainly not enough to cost Bush the race.

[StevieM]

17. Yep. Perot took equally from both candidates in the end, and up until the end he was always

costing Clinton more voters than Bush.

[TexasBushwhacker]

23. Maybe nationwide

But on a state by state basis, Perot cost Bush votes in states that mattered. It didn't matter that he pulled votes from Bush in California. It mattered that he pulled votes from Bush in Kentucky, Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee etc.

[StevieM]

25. That was never proven to be the case, and in any event Clinton won with 370 electoral votes.

There is no reasonable formula that would have had Bush winning had Perot not been in the race.

Besides, when Perot re-entered the race Clinton was up by 15 points. And, again, all polls prior to election day showed Perot taking more from Clinton than from Bush.

[The Genealogist]

6. Well isn't that special

I'm sure Maine is through with him,your basic crackpot neighbor everyone hopes doesn't show up at the block party and ruin everyone's big old good time.

[slingsam]

8. Le Page.....is Le Cochon!!! (The Pig!!)

[sakabatou]

9. What a man-child

[klook]

10. What a waste of protoplasm.

I'll be glad when LePage takes his rightful place beneath a small superscript numeral.

[sharedvalues]

12. LePage is moving to Florida. A garbage human.

And a liar, clearly.

He’s perfect for the modern Republican Party: garbage human and liar.

[bronxiteforever]

13. Na Na Na Na hey hey goodbye

[weissmam]

16. to quote Nancy Pelosi

who cares

[lastlib]

18. The guy is foreskin---

not big enough to be a full d1ck....

[SergeStorms]

19. Republicans just HATE it...

when they lose elections legally, even after they've exhausted their repertoire of dirty tricks and voter suppression. What is this country coming to when a republican can't cheat, bribe, or lie their way into elected office? It's a sad state of affairs for the republican party, I tell you!

[LBM20]

20. The asshole CHILD who is LePage can go pound sand up his ass. Bye bye ASSHOLE.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

21. Looking forward to him moving to Florida.

Although, I've been annoyed with his talk about running against Mills in 4 years if things aren't going the way he wants them too. Asshole, you can't move away from Maine because you just can't stand it here and then come back 4 years later to run for gov again because you don't like the way things are being run in your absence. That won't go over well even with the special sort of moron that would otherwise vote for him. He leaves then Mainers are going to want him to stay the fuck out of it because he gave up on Maine. Plus most of us fucking hate him. He was the reason why Mainers wanted ranked choice voting to begin with. Hey, we got rid of Poliquin and got Golden because of it. So that's a good thing. Mainers overwhelming voted in his nemesis Mills to replace him and voted in Democratic majority in our legislature, so the he knows we don't like him. He's being pissy about it, which is to be expected from him. I'm hoping that after not being Maine gov for 4 years and not living in Maine he will realize that he's personally better off not messing around in Maine politics ever again. Just retire in Florida and happy already you dumb grump.

[GulfCoast66]

22. Oh great, another rich, white old republican northern moving here

It is the main thing keeping us Red. We get an infusion of hate every single year!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

24. Yeah, sorry about that.

Hopefully, he'll quietly retire and no one in FL will hear a damn thing from him. Not sure how well known he is down in FL. There's way more people there so hopefully Floridians be like Paul Le-Who?

[Owl]

26. LePage is a jerk.

[tonekat]

27. Good Riddance to Rotten Garbage

Glad this piece of work isn't screwing over the citizens of Maine (or anywhere else) anymore. Away with you LePage, the cesspool of history awaits.