Like Gov. Paul LePage, I am a Lewiston-born Franco-American and proud Mainer. Like the governor, I have a multiracial family. Unlike the governor, my brain can “catch up with my mouth,” to deliver considerate messages. I do not mean to assert that my mouth does not deliver things that I sometimes wish to take back […]
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Lawmakers to discuss impeachment of Paul LePage today
PORTLAND — Long before Donald Trump laid waste to political correctness, there was Maine Gov. Paul LePage. For five years now, the Republican has hurled crude insults, heaped abuse on the media and offended many with his brass-knuckle tactics and off-the-cuff remarks — most recently last week, when he complained that out-of-state drug dealers with […]
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Gov. Paul LePage reschedules town meeting in Windham
WINDHAM — Gov. Paul LePage has postponed a meeting with residents in the southern Maine town of Windham, due to snow that hit parts of the state hard. The Republican governor was set to hold a town hall meeting at Windham High School on Wednesday. A spokesman for LePage says the meeting will be held […]
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What has happened to Maine?
Recently, I attended the Impeach LePage rally in Augusta. The Impeach group, of which I was a part, was exercising its civil right to peaceful assembly when a group of LePage supporters moved close to us and began shouting “Paul LePage, Paul LePage, Paul LePage” over and over again in an effort to disrupt our […]
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‘Nobody reacted’ in Bridgton when Paul LePage made ‘white girl’ comment
BRIDGTON — Laura McCabe of Bridgton was at Gov. Paul LePage’s town hall meeting Wednesday when he made his now-infamous comments about drug dealers and white girls. It never occurred to her that anyone would be offended. According to McCabe, who spent part of Friday perusing the antique shops on Main Street in search of […]
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More ‘impromptu’ thinking from Gov. Paul LePage
AUGUSTA — Maine Gov. Paul LePage apologized Friday for saying this week during a town hall meeting that drug dealers with the names “D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” come from New York City and Connecticut, sell their drugs and then “half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave.” It’s not the first time […]
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Panel releases report on Paul LePage’s role in Good Will-Hinckley affair
AUGUSTA — A Maine legislative committee is finished with its work on hearings focusing on the governor’s actions that led an organization to rescind a job offer to a political opponent. The Government Oversight Committee on Friday attached a summary of its work to go along with an independent report that already was prepared for […]
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Competing rallies show divide over Gov. Paul LePage
AUGUSTA — The debate over whether the Legislature should impeach Gov. Paul LePage spilled outside the State House on Wednesday with dueling rallies between the governor’s supporters and opponents. Wednesday was the day that the House of Representatives had planned to take up an impeachment order that is sponsored by nine Democrats and independents. Introduction […]
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Legislature, Paul LePage agree to revive expired LMF bonds
AUGUSTA — You’re reading it right: The 2016 legislative session started with agreement between legislators and Gov. Paul LePage to revive $6.5 million in expired conservation bonds. On Wednesday, the Maine House of Representatives recalled a bill from LePage’s desk that leaders said would allow the Republican governor to authorize the bonds for up to […]
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Legislators delay effort to impeach Gov. Paul LePage
AUGUSTA — The introduction of impeachment proceedings against Republican Gov. Paul LePage won’t proceed as planned on Wednesday, according to two of the measure’s sponsors. Reps. Jeff Evangelos, I-Friendship, and Ben Chipman, D-Portland, co-sponsors of the effort to impeach the governor, said Tuesday night that House leaders opted to hold off on introducing the impeachment […]