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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGov. LePage replaces State of the State with insulting letter
http://thetippingpoint.bangordailynews.com/2016/02/08/state-politics/gov-lepage-replaces-state-of-the-state-with-insulting-letter/Last month, Governor Paul LePage announced that he would not deliver Maines State of the State address this year, breaking with decades of tradition. In lieu of the speech, LePage today sent an letter to legislative leaders.
Unlike a normal State of the State, the missive does not announce any new policy priorities. Instead, the governor devotes the bulk of the letter rehashing past disagreements with the legislature and attacking members of the House and Senate.
LePages new favorite insult is apparently socialist and he uses a variation of the phrase 13 times in the 8-page note, blaming a foreign socialist ideology for everything from deaths do to heroin overdoses (an issue the legislature has actually found bipartisan consensus on) to Maines electricity rates (which are the lowest in New England and have fallen significantly in recent years, no thanks to LePages empty rhetoric).
LePage also reiterates his proposals to eliminate Maines income tax and implement new public assistance cuts that were rejected by the legislature last year. He does not mention that the ballot initiative he championed on those issues failed to gain the signatures required to make this years ballot.
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Gov. LePage replaces State of the State with insulting letter (Original Post)
jpak
Feb 2016
OP
I was at a Christie event with Govs Hogan and Baker. LePage was suspiciously absent
brooklynite
Feb 2016
#3
peacefreak
(2,939 posts)1. Stay klassy
Big Paulie.
edhopper
(33,567 posts)2. I hope all those who say they won't vote
for the Dem candidate if their person doesn't get it, learns the lesson of Maine.
brooklynite
(94,499 posts)3. I was at a Christie event with Govs Hogan and Baker. LePage was suspiciously absent
randome
(34,845 posts)4. Only one Type A Moron can be in the room at one time.
It's physics.
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