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Title: Maine Gov. Paul LePage leaves obscene voicemail, talks of shooting lawmaker
Source: Mercury News
URL Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-w ... leaves-obscene-voicemail-talks
Published: Aug 26, 2016
Author: Marina Villeneuve, Associated Press
Post Date: 2016-08-26 17:40:35 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 410
Comments: 4

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Republican Gov. Paul LePage has unleashed an obscene tirade on a Democratic legislator, leaving him a voicemail message that said "I am after you" and telling reporters he wished it were 1825 so he could challenge the lawmaker to a duel and point a gun between his eyes.

LePage said in the Thursday morning voicemail that he wanted to talk with Rep. Drew Gattine of Westbrook about the legislator calling him a racist. Gattine has denied calling LePage a racist.

"I want you to prove that I'm a racist," LePage said, adding that he had spent his life helping black people and calling Gattine a vulgar name related to oral sex. "I want you to record this and make it public because I am after you."

LePage, who's white, was accused of making racially insensitive comments Wednesday at a town hall in North Berwick, where he said photos he's collected in a binder of drug dealers arrested in the state showed that 90 percent of them "are black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Connecticut; the Bronx; and Brooklyn."

House and Senate Democrats and the Maine Democratic Party on Friday questioned LePage's capacity to lead. LePage's office didn't immediately comment.

After leaving the voicemail, LePage later invited reporters to the governor's mansion, where he confirmed that he had left the message and said he wished he and Gattine could face off in a duel.

"When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I'd like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825," LePage said, according to the Portland Press Herald. "And we would have a duel, that's how angry I am, and I would not put my gun in the air, I guarantee you, I would not be (Alexander) Hamilton. I would point it right between his eyes because he is a snot-nosed little runt and he has not done a damn thing since he's been in this Legislature to help move the state forward."

Police in Westbrook said Friday that they had received a citizen complaint about the voicemail. A police official said the complaint came from someone who didn't live in the city. It's unclear if there will be an investigation.

Gattine, who is running for re-election, has clashed with the governor on how to address welfare reform, drug addiction and eligibility for developmental disabilities programs.

Gattine said he wasn't concerned about his safety, but he called the voicemail a distraction and the latest of LePage's personal vendettas against lawmakers. Gattine shared the voicemail's audio with the Press Herald.

"The fact is he sits around fantasizing about having duels with legislators or obsessing over the race of people who are arrested for crimes," Gattine said.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said in a statement that it's "embarrassing" that LePage is contributing to the "steady loss of civility in politics."

LePage, in his second term as governor, has a history of drawing attention for his blunt remarks. In January, Paul LePage said drug dealers with names like "D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty" are getting Maine's white girls pregnant. He later apologized, saying he meant to say "Maine women" and not "white women."

LePage has compared his style to that of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, whom he supports, though he recently said Trump was his third choice for president after Chris Christie and Jeb Bush.

"I was Donald Trump before Donald Trump became popular, so I think I should support him since we're one of the same cloth," he told radio show host Howie Carr in February.

LePage this week called the father of a dead Muslim U.S. Army captain a "con artist" for criticizing Trump. LePage's daughter Lauren LePage has been hired by Trump and vice presidential candidate Mike Pence to work as the state's coalitions director.

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Here's a look at other controversial remarks made by the two-term governor:

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September 2010

As a candidate for governor, LePage told a group of fishermen during a discussion of federal regulations that he wouldn't be afraid to tell President Barack Obama to "go to hell." He later said he regretted the words but didn't back down on criticism of the administration.

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January 2011

After the Portland NAACP chapter felt slighted when LePage declined invitations to attend Martin Luther King Jr. Day events, a reporter asked LePage about it. He answered: "Tell them to kiss my butt." LePage ended up attended a breakfast honoring the slain civil rights leader in Waterville, as he had in the past, and he skipped events in Maine's largest city.

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February 2011

LePage dismissed the dangers of bisphenol-A, a chemical additive used in some plastic bottles, by saying the worst that could happen was "some women may have little beards." LePage later said he was joking.

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December 2011

LePage used a barnyard epithet when he was asked about a meeting he had with three unemployed workers and a lawmaker. When a reporter asked him for his thoughts about the meeting, LePage used the expletive, then repeated it slowly.

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April 2012

At a town hall meeting, LePage was asked about state fees. LePage's response: "The problem is, Middle management of the state is about as corrupt as can be."

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July 2012

In a radio address, LePage assailed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the health care overhaul law, saying Americans had no choice but to buy health insurance or "pay the new Gestapo -- the IRS." He later said he didn't mean to offend the Jewish community or minimize the Holocaust.

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June 2013

Expressing his frustration over the state budget, LePage used a vulgar phrase to describe a Democratic opponent, saying the lawmaker "claims to be for the people, but he's the first one to give it to the people without providing Vaseline."

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June 2015

LePage joked about shooting a political cartoonist to the cartoonists' son at a youth leadership program. A newspaper official said it wasn't funny, especially after the killing of cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

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January 2016

LePage said during a town hall meeting that drug dealers with the names "D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty" come to Maine from New York City and Connecticut, sell their drugs and then "half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave." LePage later apologized, saying he meant to say "Maine women" instead of white women.

Later that month, LePage said he wanted to use the guillotine to execute drug dealers publicly. The governor's office said the remark during a radio interview was just a joke to illustrate his support for tougher penalties for drug crimes. In the interview, LePage laughed when he talked about using the guillotine to chop off the heads of drug traffickers.

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February 2016

LePage was accused of racial insensitivity over a joke about a Chinese investor's name. The man's first name is Chiu -- pronounced "choo." When LePage mentioned him at a business breakfast, he pronounced the man's name with an emphatic fake sneeze. The governor's office later said the two have an "excellent relationship."

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April 2016

At the Republican Party convention, LePage said that it's hard to understand workers from Bulgaria and that workers from India are "the worst ones." He made his remarks while criticizing a proposal to increase Maine's minimum wage. He described Indians as "lovely people, but you've got to have an interpreter."


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LePage's daughter Lauren LePage has been hired by Trump and vice presidential candidate Mike Pence to work as the state's coalitions director.

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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)

"where he said photos he's collected in a binder of drug dealers arrested in the state showed that 90 percent of them "are black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Connecticut; the Bronx; and Brooklyn."

Citing the statistics is racist?

misterwhite  posted on  2016-08-26   18:09:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Willie Green (#0)

Good. All elected democrats should be put on trial for treason. Id like to puke on them.

A K A Stone  posted on  2016-08-26   18:13:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: misterwhite (#1)

" Citing the statistics is racist? "

Sounds pretty honest to me.

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood

"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur

Stoner  posted on  2016-08-26   19:10:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Willie Green (#0)

the more the left hates Paul, the more I like him.

Elected and unelected Bureaucrats, leeches, and cockroaches are all part of the same family in the animal kingdom.

BobCeleste  posted on  2016-08-26   19:19:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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