AUGUSTA – Lawmakers on the Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee got their first look at a new report on problems with recruitment, retention and training for volunteer firefighters across Maine. Lawmakers also discussed how to best move forward with establishing a central training facility for volunteer fire departments and how to best fund […]
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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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SJ Blogs: ‘If you ask me, Gov. LePage got it right’
Kind of interesting when you think about it. Two words, “white girl” have set the media, not just in Maine, but around the planet abuzz with their laser focus on what could be yet another juicy racial incident. Further, the political class, in Maine and nationally, jumped like Pavlov’s dog, right on cue, when they […]
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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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Paul LePage says ‘white girl’ remark was mistake, not racial
Discussing the state’s growing opioid addiction problem LePage said, “Guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty … these types of guys. They come from Connecticut and New York; they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave, which is a […]
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President Obama mocks ‘conspiracy’ at forum on gun control
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama mocked conspiracy theorists and tore into the National Rifle Association for pushing “imaginary fiction,” as he described his plans to tighten gun control rules as modest first steps toward tackling gun violence in America. In a prime-time, televised town hall meeting Thursday, Obama fielded tough questions from high-profile […]
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Gov. Paul LePage stirs up controversy with racial comment
UPDATE: Gov. Paul LePage blames media for controversy over remark Gov. Paul LePage made national news Thursday for saying out-of-state drug dealers “half the time” impregnate young white girls before leaving the state. During a town hall meeting in Bridgton on Wednesday, the governor described those who come to Maine to sell drugs as “guys with […]
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Maine group seeking ballot question on gun checks nears signature target
AUGUSTA — A group hoping to bring a statewide ballot question to require federal background checks on all gun sales in Maine said Thursday it was well on its way to gathering the more than 61,000 voter signatures it needs for a November referendum. “We fully anticipate having the signature numbers that we need and […]