Maine Republicans deciding on how to handle LePage situation

“Some things I’ve been asked to do are beyond my ability”, LePage said without elaborating. I’m not going to say that I’m not going to finish it. “I’m not saying I am going to finish it”.

LePage is the same governor who said earlier this year that the state’s heroin epidemic stems from “guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” coming from places like NY to sell heroin in ME and “impregnate a young white girl before they leave”.

LePage also left a profanity-riddled voice message for Democratic Rep. The governor said this morning that Republican legislators have made “demands” of him, but LePage didn’t mention any specifics, or whether he’s prepared to meet those “demands”.

Senate President Michael Thibodeau, for one, said he hoped LePage would take “corrective action” himself without a formal legislative censure.

LePage has said “racist” is “the absolute worst, most vile thing you can call a person”. “You know, I was being very careful in terms of what I said”. “It’s as pervasive as anything I’ve ever seen in my 30 years in health care”. I want to talk to you. I’ve spent my life helping black people and you little son-of-a-bitch, socialist cocksucker. “It’s a fact. What do you want me to lie?”

“It’s possible it was a screw-up”, said Michael Franz, chairman of the government department at Maine’s Bowdoin College, referring to the radio interview.

LePage left a voicemail rant for Gattine and encouraged him to publicize it. “It’s about making sure that we can move the state forward”.

Earlier, the Republican governor had refused to apologize for the message, even saying at press conference he wished it was 1825 so he could shoot Gattine in a duel.

Fredette also said he and other lawmakers were frustrated by the distraction of LePage’s behaviors as it was keeping them from working on important policy issues, including the state’s opioid drug crisis.

During a town hall meeting August 24 in North Berwick, the Republican governor said he keeps a three-ringed binder of photos from drug busts, and that 90 percent of the suspects are black or Hispanic.

“The governor of ME is clearly at a loss on how to fix his state’s drug problem”.

LePage’s admission that people of color are targeted far more often for drug arrests sparked charges of government-sponsored racial profiling from his critics. “And I will tell you that 90-plus percent of those pictures in my book – and it’s a three-ringed binder – are black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Connecticut; the Bronx; and Brooklyn”.

“I know everyone in this world wants an immediate solution, but we’re dealing with a pretty complicated [situation] here, and it’s highly charged in an election year”, Higgins said. Earlier this year, he denied he meant to be racist when he said drug dealers “with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” were coming to the state to impregnate “white girls”.