Reply #20: LePage owns an overstock warehouse chain of stores named Marden's [View All]

[northernlights]

so he's a local rethug self-made businessman. He appeals to the uneducated, rural locals who don't get that wrecking the coast for one industry will destroy all other local industries from lobstering, clamming and fishing to tourism.

These people may live in shacks with corrogated tin roofs, or in camps with outhouses. But they cannot begin to fathom the environmental destruction -- and destruction of their way of life -- that he would bring. They take nature for granted...they've never seen what it's like to have your environment turned into toxic soup. They generally don't read or get out of the state much. They cannot even begin to imagine the ramifications.

And then there are those who simply envy the coastal people; they can't afford it so they want to destroy it. Instead of being grateful to at least be able to visit easily.