Gov. Paul LePage repeated his assertion Friday that two members of the Maine People’s Alliance should be jailed for backing a minimum wage increase. “They are deliberately and knowingly hurting Mainers,” LePage said during a phone-in interview on WGAN radio according to the Portland Press Herald. “To me when you go out and kill somebody, you […]
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Video: Gov. Paul LePage slams ballot questions at chamber breakfast
AUBURN — In the course of telling Mainers to “just say no” to all five ballot questions Thursday morning, Gov. Paul LePage said two well-known proponents of hiking the minimum wage “should be thrown in jail” for their stance. Speaking at a Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce breakfast at Auburn’s Hilton Garden Inn, LePage […]
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Gov. Paul LePage clarifies: Trump is authoritative, Obama is a dictator
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage held a rare news conference on Wednesday to say that he meant to call Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “authoritative” instead of “authoritarian” in a radio interview the previous day. It became much more than a one-word clarification: He called President Barack Obama “a dictator,” said the U.S. is so weak […]
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Paul Lepage defends Donald Trump, blasts Susan Collins
Gov. Paul LePage doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on his support for embattled Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in his regular Tuesday appearance on WVOM. On Monday, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin told fellow Republican House members he wouldn’t campaign with or defend Trump after Friday’s release of a 2005 tape in which the […]
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Video: Eric Trump stumps for his father in Auburn and Turner
TURNER — With Maine increasingly seen as a battleground state in the U.S. presidential election, Eric Trump came to the state Thursday to tout his father, Donald Trump, the Republican Party candidate. After accusing the Democrats of “running the country into the ground,” Donald Trump’s second son said his father is “going to return prosperity […]
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Cato Institute gives Gov. Paul LePage an ‘A’ for fiscal policy
AUGUSTA — Libertarian think tank The Cato Institute has awarded Maine’s governor with its highest grade in its “Fiscal Report Card on America’s Governors.” Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, was one of five governors to receive an “A” grade on fiscal policy, and his mark was the highest of the five. The report is based […]
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Maine school boards push back against Gov. Paul LePage
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage believes Maine has a glut of school superintendents and he intends to pressure districts into consolidating administrations with the two-year budget he will propose in early 2017. LePage said in a recent interview that funding is being spent more on the administration of schools and not in the classroom. The […]
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Gov. Paul LePage wants to shift education funding to local districts
Gov. Paul LePage said Tuesday he wants to push the cost of paying school superintendents to the local level. LePage’s comments came during his regular radio appearance on WVOM and offered one of the first glimpses of what to expect from his next state budget proposal, which is due in January. “All of the backroom […]
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Gov. Paul LePage’s binder doesn’t back claims on trafficking, race
AUGUSTA — More than half of the photographs filling a binder that Gov. Paul LePage cited as supporting a claim that upward of 90 percent of suspects arrested in Maine on opiate-trafficking charges are out-of-state “black and Hispanic people” are instead of white drug defendants. The Republican governor’s office released the 148-page file on Monday […]
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Gov. Paul LePage cites media bias in coverage
BANGOR — Maine Gov. Paul LePage says he can’t be wrong 100 percent of the time but that’s how he’s portrayed in the media. LePage used a Constitution Week Forum at his alma mater, Husson University, to take a shot at the news coverage of his administration last week. He says news reporters are more […]