Maine’s Paul LePage Might Just Be the Worst GOP Governor of All
Published on Friday, February 28, 2014 by The Nation
Maines Paul LePage Might Just Be the Worst GOP Governor of All
by John Nichols
When Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington released its report on The Worst Governors in America last summer, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was not even on the list. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did make the cronyism, mismanagement, nepotism, self-enrichment list, but the review of his tenure was not necessarily the most scathing in CREWs assessment of Republicans and Democrats who had gone astray. And Ohio Governor John Kasich was ranked as nothing more than a sideshow.
Now Christie is busy answering questions about blocked traffic, misdirected Sandy aid and political misdeeds. Walkers facing national and state scrutiny of secret e-mails and illegal campaign operations so intense that even Fox News Sundays Chris Wallace interrupted him to say, But sir, youre not answering my question. And Kasich is scrambling to deal with a Frackgate controversy touched off by the exposure of a public-relations schemeapparently developed by his administration, Halliburton and oil and gas industry lobbyiststo proactively open state park and forest land for fracking.
The scandals surrounding these prominent Republican governors, some of them potential presidential contenders, are serious. And they raise the question: Could there really be a governor who is more controversial? And whose actions might be even more troubling?
Meet Maine Governor Paul LePage, who ranked in the very top tier of CREWs worst list with this review:
The first-term governor packed his administration with lobbyists and used his office to promote their environmental-deregulation agenda, and allegedly went so far as to fire a state employee who testified in favor of policies the administration opposed.
Gov. LePage also attempted to gut his states open records act, and is under investigation by the federal government for trying to bully employees of the state Department of Labor into deciding more cases in favor of business.
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aquart
(69,014 posts)Let's just wait and see how many indictments are handed down and to whom.
unionthug777
(740 posts)still gets my vote !!!
unionthug777
(740 posts)let's get that straight !!!