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jpak

(41,755 posts)
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:18 PM Apr 2016

LePage walks out of UMF event after students hold up signs criticizing him

Source: Kennebec Journal

ARMINGTON — Gov. Paul LePage walked away from the podium after two students raised signs critical of him at the dedication of a building at the University of Maine at Farmington Tuesday afternoon.

Lepage, who called the students ‘idiots’ as he walked past the crowd on the way out of the event, was the featured speaker at the dedication of the Theodora J. Kalikow Education Center.

The governor has been under fire this week after he poked fun at the accents of foreign workers at the state Republican convention in Bangor. Maine House Speaker mark Eve is is also urging the attorney general’s office to sanction LePage after the governor held a closed-door meeting of a special commission on education funding Monday, which the attorney general said was in violation of the state’s open meeting law.

LePage had just stepped up to the podium and started to speak when the students held up the signs, one of which said “LePage Maine’s Shame.” The other sign was an environmental report card giving LePage an “F” and Kalikow an “A.”

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Read more: http://www.centralmaine.com/2016/04/26/lepage-walks-out-of-umf-event-after-students-hold-up-signs-criticizing-him/



LePutin is out of control....even by LePutin standards...

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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,520 posts)
1. There are a lot of truly awful GOP governors,
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:19 PM
Apr 2016

but LePage might be the biggest d-bag of the whole sorry bunch.

jpak

(41,755 posts)
3. He shoulda gone all Trump on them and have his thugs remove them uppity studests
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:23 PM
Apr 2016

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"get them out of here...get 'em out...etc."

But no - he just comes of like the wuss.

Bully Tinpot dictator Fail...

yup

Eugene

(61,780 posts)
6. I think the governor needs to take a break.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:34 PM
Apr 2016

If he can get rattled by two students holding up signs, he needs
to step away from the limelight. His pulling out of the education
reform process just because the Mean Old Press won't let him
run it in secret is further proof that he's just not up to the job.

jpak

(41,755 posts)
13. LePutin forced the president of the Maine community college system to resign
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 08:43 PM
Apr 2016

because he wasn't moving fast enough to implement LePew's fucked up policies.

If I was president of UWF...

I would be afraid.

very afraid...

yup

Always Randy

(1,058 posts)
7. I think he is bucking for a Vice President nomination from Trump
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:57 PM
Apr 2016

LePage really fits a National mold. He could also run for Sheriff in Maricopa County if Arpaia ever steps down.

johnfunk

(6,113 posts)
14. LePutin. LePuke. LePenguin. LEPETOMANE!
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 09:45 PM
Apr 2016

Governor Paul LePetomane, a descendent of Blazing Saddles' Gov. William J. LePetomane?



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