Maine GOP leaders call for closed-door meeting with governor
Now one in his own party does. He said he hopes legislators don’t have to censure the governor.
“Up until this point, I have refrained from publicly criticizing any of the governor’s behavior both out of respect for the office and a desire to preserve a working relationship with him and his staff”, she said. LePage is being accused again of making racially insensitive comments, this time by saying photos he’s collected in a binder of drug dealers arrested in the state show more than 90 percent of them are black or Hispanic. LePage did not appreciate the lawmaker’s comments and left a message for Gattine, calling him a ‘little son-of-a-bitch, socialist cocksucker’.
Gattine has told media that he never specifically called LePage a racist.
Legislative leaders in ME are considering holding a special session to censure Republican Governor Paul LePage after a number of controversial issues last week.
“Look, a bad guy is a bad guy, I don’t care what color it is”. “If I am a racist for trying to get black people and Hispanic people and white people and Asian people who come up [Interstate] 95 with heroin that will kill Mainers, then I plead guilty”.
Heroin-dealing men of color from out-of-state impregnating white women, he continued, “is a real sad thing because then we have another issue that we’ve got to deal with down the road”. You try to identify the enemy. During those comments, he indicated that people of color are the enemy and should be shot.
The top Democrat in the Maine Senate says the state should consider a constitutional amendment to allow for a recall of Republican Gov. Paul LePage. ” Later that same day, LePage said that most drug dealers arrested in ME are black or Hispanic. I can’t help that”.
Bill Nemitz, columnist for the Portland Press Herald, talks with Rachel Maddow about ME governor Paul LePage fixation on race and how his most recent obscenity-laden meltdown has added calls for a mental health evaluation to calls for his resignation.
Lewis questioned why LePage is mentioning the race of the arrested drug dealers in the first place. I think Maine must do better. “We’re known for LePage and that’s a travesty”.
The ACLU of ME said studies show black and white people use and sell drugs at similar rates, and questioned whether police are profiling.
LePage was wrong to react the way he did, said Republican Rep. Dick Campbell, of Orrington.