Gov. Paul LePage made two interesting remarks in his criticism of the Maine state budget, which he claims is loaded with “pork,” or, as the Sun Journal reported, “laden with pet projects.”

The first was that leaders at the State House “ … all sit in darkened rooms when everybody else is in bed and they make these little deals among themselves.”

If this claim is so, how did they communicate, in the dark, to form these deals without waking somebody up? Subdued flashlight signals? Faint Morse code tapping? The use of night vision goggles and hand signals? His claim must be fully examined and clarified.

The second is his criticism of his own verbal skills: “I may not be very articulate,” LePage said, holding up the toy pig and squeaking it twice, “because I came from the streets.”

Now, in my life’s journey, I have come across many a person “from the [so-called] streets,” and I have never found them lack the ability to articulate on any subject matter. In fact [so-called] street people possess the uncanny ability of saying a lot in maybe three or four words. And they don’t need a toy to make a point.

A touch of eloquence may be absent, and there the governor may have a point.

Eriks Petersons, Mechanic Falls