Maine’s LePage comes unglued after racial controversy

[KamaAina]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maines-lepage-comes-unglued-after-racial-controversy

Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s (R) record when it comes to racially charged rhetoric has long been problematic, but this week, the trajectory of this story took a rather alarming turn.

At a town-hall event on Wednesday, LePage said he’s been “collecting” mugshots of “every single drug dealer” who has been arrested in Maine – why he’s proactively done this is unclear – and “90-plus percent of those pictures in my book, and it’s a three-ringed binder, are black and Hispanic people” from out of state.

Note, earlier in the year, the far-right governor said he just “reads the names” of the drug dealers and didn’t care at all about race or ethnicity. This week, apparently, LePage dropped the pretense.

When reporters asked the governor the next day about his comments, LePage replied, “Let me tell you something: Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers. You ought to look into that!” According to the Portland Press Herald, the governor then stormed off, saying over his shoulder, “You make me so sick!”

LePage? Unglued?

[msongs]

1. democratically elected by the majority of voters. he's not alone in his beliefs nt

[edhopper]

2. not by a majority

He won because of third party candidates.
That is the lesson.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

3. Right, it is too bad that Mainers have to keep pointing that out.

The majority of us never wanted him, but we keep getting stuck with him. The image that LePage projects is so incredibly different from a typical Mainer. He really doesn't represent us well at all. I'm just glad we have term limits on govs in Maine, but I imagine we will be plagued with LePage running for something else or joining forces with Trumpster. LePage is full of himself now that he got elected twice, so I don't think he will go away quietly. I don't think he does anything quietly.

[Maine-i-acs]

4. 62% voted against this overt racist.

[canetoad]

5. Maybe planning

To do a Duerte Harry in Maine.

[struggle4progress]

6. "And this is why we shouldn't have highways!"

[eppur_se_muova]

7. You can't come unglued if you were never really glued in the first place. nt

[3catwoman3]

8. Your wording is a bit different than mine...

...would have been, but we are thinking exactly the same thing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Ironically, LePage is a brand of glue.

http://www.lepage.ca/en.html