AP: Maine’s Blunt-Talking Governor Rankles Many Voters
- Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:11pm by
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — With less than three months on the job, Gov. Paul LePage has already managed to rankle more constituencies with his bluntness than any Maine governor in recent memory.
Even before he was elected, LePage said he’d tell the president to “go to hell.”
Two weeks after taking office, he called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People a special interest group and told critics to “kiss my butt” over his decision to not attend the NAACP’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations.
He later raised a ruckus when he dismissed the dangers of bisphenol-A, a chemical additive used in some plastic bottles, saying the worst that could happen was “some women may have little beards.”
Now he’s ticking off labor groups — and smaller constituencies such as artists and museum curators, which typically aren‘t on anybody’s political radar screen — by removing a huge mural depicting the state‘s labor history from the Labor Department headquarters because it wasn’t in keeping with his pro-business agenda. When asked what he would do if anybody tried to block the mural’s removal, he said, “I’d laugh at them, the idiots.”
“You could draw up a pretty extensive list of various constituencies across the state that Gov. LePage has managed to offend in one way or another,” said Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine. “And the fact that he’s been in office for only a few months makes the size of that list all the more impressive.”
Nobody expected a polished, spit-and-shine governor when LePage, a Republican, was elected in November. The oldest son in an impoverished family of 18 children in blue-collar Lewiston, he left home before he was a teenager to escape domestic violence. He shined shoes and sold newspapers while sleeping at friends’ homes, in horse stables and even in an upstairs room at a strip joint.
With his tell-it-like-it-is attitude and his aim of shaking up state government, it’s inevitable LePage will anger certain people. The governor speaks what’s on his mind, said spokeswoman Adrienne Bennett.
“It’s his policies and the substance that people should be focusing on,” Bennett said. “Whether or not he gets style points is not high on our priority list.”
You’d have to go back to James Longley, an independent who served from 1975-79, to find anything close to the spiciness coming from LePage, said Kenneth Palmer, who has written several books on Maine politics and taught at the University of Maine from 1969-2004. Longley could be abrasive and once called some legislators “pimps,” but it was his ideology — not his off-the-cuff remarks — that most angered his critics, he said.
“On the whole, Maine governors have been fairly straight-laced and moderate,” Palmer said.
It‘s hard to say if LePage’s style is hurting him politically, said MaryEllen FitzGerald, president of the Critical Insights market research firm in Portland.
LePage’s brusqueness may be energizing his detractors, but it may also be invigorating his supporters, FitzGerald said.
“Depending on which side of the fence you’re on, you see him as being either very insensitive and careless, or you see him as being a pretty effective strategist,” she said.
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Comments (146)
BigPaulie
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:36pmThere is no working ‘with’ progressives. You either give them what they want or they cry and whine like little babies. After that they become thugs and criminals. I say screw ‘em! Don’t give them an inch.
Report Post »flagbearer
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:35pmI’d much rather have a brash and truthful governor than one who is “eloquent” with the aid of a teleprompter and lies through his teeth.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:01amMy thoughts exactly. I’d trade 100 obamas for one LePage. A little honest truth is sooooo refreshing. Hope we CAN believe in.
Report Post »donh2
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:30pmFeather ruffling is a code language for “ I am taking away your feather bed ” . If a Governor lacks the courage to offend people bitterly clinging to public funds, he most certainly lacks the courage to actually cut budget waste. The first step towards cutting budgets is to fire some Public Relations shots across the bow .
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MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:28pmWell… Seems that Maine has a real Patriot in the corner office.
Report Post »Congrats to you the informed voters of Maine.
The last decent Gov we had here in MA was Weld, and he wasn’t all that great.
If you people in Maine don’t want him, he will be welcomed by many of us here in the land of Massizstan. We need a few patriots down here. We seem to be outnumbered by liberal fools.
jordy2010
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:22pmLepage got rid of an ugly mural that was put there by the unions…….. the colors were bland…… the scene had no dimension and the people in it looked like they were drinking vinegar……..typical 1950′s soviet-style ”art”………and to top it off…….the AFL-CIO woman was balling like a little girl…….. she needs to go see a shrink…….. like most socialists……. so Lepage is gruff??? big deal…..it‘s refreshing from all these PC metrosexuals we’ve been accustomed to see for the last 40 years……
Report Post »raggle
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:19pmI hope we start to see the benefits of policies of Gov. LePage and others like him before the next election. I’m sure Maine will, but the rest of us need to see the results of common sense.
Report Post »Nigel2
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:18pmI know I like what I hear so far!
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:08pmlove this Gov. wish he was ours.
Report Post »awall1231
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:04pmIt seems that the left is losing ground at every turn. I actually have some real hope for change in the next year and a half. thank you Lord for weighing on peoples hearts to not be silent anymore. I think the left is finding out how few they are.
Report Post »tbear44
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:52amYeah, it’s ironic that the “Hope ‘N Change” will come from our side.
Report Post »Atilla
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:03pmNever could figure Main out. As a MA native and living in a Peoples Republic, always thought of Main as the opposite of the Marxist mindset in this state. Maybe some of his honesty wil rub off across the border but I doubt it.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:00pmI hope here in Mt. we get soneone like him.
Report Post »I can’t wait to get rid of the bobble head we now have.
He’s about a 1/2 can short of being a 6 pak Howard Dean.
marine43
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:19pmHey other “Marine” dude , Nice to see i ain’t alone here. Semper fi bro.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:24pmMARINE43
Semper Fi
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:36amNot as lean, still mean and always a MARINE. Don’t be suprised if there are many more of
Report Post »us out here.
S/F Marines
pappy
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:59pmAlmost sounds like Rick Scott, our new Gov. here in Fla. He was voted in, doing what he campaigned on, Doing what he promised & every non – conservative radio station & newspaper is trying to tear him down. If you based your opinion on what you hear & read, you’d want to have him executed. The guy is doing what we pay him to do. Give him a chance. He’s not much to look at but doing a bang up job, so far…
Report Post »I’m glad to see the great state of Maine has faired well from the election. My hope for them is to continue to do well.
beverlee
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:56pmPulled himself out of poverty. Became governor. No nonsense. Says it like he sees it. The new Christie.
Report Post »DaveOregon
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:53pmGete over your sensitivity – clear, no nonsense or appeasement. I’d rather have some one answer the question quickly, straight, and to the point without worrying about my feelings, then wasting my time with all the other “dance around the bush” so my feelings won’t get hurt. They are my feelings – I’ll take care of them – just be straight and honest. I’ll decide if I like the answer. Good for the Gov.
Report Post »NatGuardMom
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:53pmI live in Maine and let me tell you I love the man. He says it like it is and not afraid to speak his mine. Why do you think we voted for him.
Report Post »jim
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:46pmMaine is an uptight Minnesota… a real wack job electorate that doesn’t know if it is Dem or Repub… you would think this “Jesse Ventura” type personality would be a welcomed change.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 3:10am@Jim Pretty valid observation! It seems to me that the vast farms, forrests and small communities of Maine carry Portland on their backs (economically) but Portland has the numbers to vote opposite of all the hard-working Mainers and usually win elections for big entitlement spenders.
Report Post »beckwill
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:46pmYea, you get someone that‘s actually had to live life without mooching and handouts and they’ll tend to give it to you straight. BS doesn’t cut it in the real world.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:39pmHe was like that before he got elected? Says more about the people who voted for him.
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:34pmYeah, I am surprised. Apparently not all Mainers are stupid.
Report Post »raggle
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:34pmI like this guy, maybe twitter should look towards Maine for expansion
Report Post »ConservativeObserver
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:28pmLePage will do just fine. Local newpapers (particularly the Bangor Daily News) just hammer him with above-the-fold headlines for silly little things like the communist-style mural in the Department of Labor.
The guy is genuine and has the best interest of the state at heart. The country club republicans and the left can’t stand him. I am not so sure what the center thinks, but his fundamental reform actions will make him popular. He certainly is not going to be sucked into any existing power structure – and that is what Maine needs to have a chance to improve from the dismal state it is in.
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:27pmHe’s right to the point, no spin, no B.S.
Report Post »I like it.
simple thought
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:23pmsomeone who speaks his mind as he truely believes and see’s it…………kudos
Report Post »brntout
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:20pmChris Christy’s crunchies woth a pair…..Go Wisconsin go O..h…i….o go New Jersey ..Go anyone who defies the unions.
Report Post »sleazyhippo
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:30pmWe deserve what we get – Blunt talking truth tellers Rule! God Bless State O Maine!
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:20pmLiberals CAN’T STAND the truth! It’s just that simple.
Report Post »sleazyhippo
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:28pmTruth Rocks! The outcomes of being truthful are awesome!
Report Post »Theleftisda
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:50pmThis off topic
but why is this not on the Blaze
the real reason the C.E.O of G.E is in bed with Obama
http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Federal_Reserve_Finally_Forced_to_Reveal_What_it_Did_with_3_3_Trillion_Dollars
The $3.3 trillion figure did not include lending to banks through the Fed’s discount window. That information remains confidential and the subject of an ongoing lawsuit by media companies seeking to publish details of that aspect of the 2008 crisis.
According to Sen. Sanders, “Among the corporate beneficiaries were Citigroup, which received over $1.8 trillion; Morgan Stanley, which received nearly $2 trillion; Goldman Sachs, which received nearly $600 billion; and Bear Stearns, which received more than $960 billion in short-term loans with an interest rate as low as 0.5 percent.” This money was all loaned at zero or near-zero interest.
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-In addition, General Electric received $16 trillion in short-term financing under a “commercial paper -
funding facility” that purchased both asset-based and unsecured loans for three-month periods.-
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this is not the $700 billion or the $3.3 trillion
28_ID
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:48pmDitto.
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:14pmBrash and arrogant. Could be Obama’s alter ego.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:19pmThank GOD! a politician that IS NOT pc. it is about time, Kaisich (sp) is close here in Ohio.
Report Post »sleazyhippo
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:25pmI hope this gentleman continues to tell the truth forever. Thank You, God Bless You, Mr. Governor!
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:25pmStanding ovation from my living room !!!! I wish and I mean wish my governor Bam Jr. Deval Patrick would say something like that . I need out of MA .
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:27pmI know plenty of women that have little beards and it’s NOT due to plastic bottles . Michelle Bam has a HUGE can , is that from plastic too ? Y
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:36pmEmployers are laborers, too.
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:38pmI am from maine. Lepage won with less than 40% of the vote because there were two other candidates. He has declared war on our teachers, who are some of the lowest paid in the nation, and seems to think education is a joke. He has no jobs plan and no vision for maines future.
jzs
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:43pmAs the AP says, this appeals to his base, not so much to other people. He didn’t talk like this during is campaign. I guess we’ll see how many people vote for him next time around.
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:49pmBeing a Mainer: let him continue to ruffle the feathers of those who seem to want to crap on my Governor. And for those who don’t understand, these idiots, yep the libs have rule and governed for 35 years and drove our state deep into despair. Yet the AP thinks our governor is our current problem and his frank approach to our current problems, we need and needed someone who can stand up for our state and not bow down to the special interest. If we had some legislators in congress with half the b@lls we’d be out of dept in weeks.
Report Post »Chuck
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:54pmRED ALERT !! RED ALERT !! Demo RADAR picking up… GINSBERG !!
G-man, to make you feel comfortable, I will take a chapter out of your dem playbook, and work off of Identity Politics. My dem radar senses that you belong to some voting bloc CONTROLLED by the libby/commie party which tells its robo-slaves to go forth and socialize/jihadize/commitize all those silly adult infidels that keep trying to remove all that you can emote on…… and replacing all your efforts with a little Christian fiscal responsiblity.
Report Post »So, did you vote bo in to eliminate your home country ? Did bo bow to your homeland’s leader ??
MODEL82A1
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:01pmGINSBERG, it is long past due that State Executives (That means Governors), “declare war on teachers”. Far too many public school teachers (maybe even the majority) are nothing but lazy, unaccountable, greedy, overcompensated failures. The war on their Union handlers needs to be even more aggressive, as the unions are lead by even greedier, unaccountable failures.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:01pmOr course people are ticked off at this guy, he‘s telling the truth and that’s something many, many people haven’t heard in a long, long time. The simple fact is, is they don’t know what the truth sounds like and it FREAKS them out.
Way to go Gov. LePage, keep telling it like it is.
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:06pm…..as far as outcomes are concerned maine schools had a 5% higher (afgr) averaged freshman graduation rate than the national average. hey ginsburg, maybe the schools below maine in outcomes should pay their teachers less. sometimes you can be too smart (actually smart or think that you’re smart) to understand some very simple facts.
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:09pmHe is definitely a real character, that’s for sure. I kind of enjoy hearing someone speak without all of the politically correct jargon. He seems to pretty much just speak his mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11eYGdOVnvc
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:11pmI might move to Maine just so I can vote for him!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:16pmHe’s ******* off the proffessional whiners and moochers. Good for him.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:17pm@Ginsberg ~
Methinks you are at the wrong site. Try Animal Planet. That seems to suit your attitude.
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:32pm@GINSBERG: Public education is a joke. Maine is impoverished with no jobs. Public education is a cornerstone of communism. It’s time reachers start competing in the private sector only. If you stink as a teacher, you’re out of a job. You pay for your benefits. You get paid for 9 months not 12. You have to actually FIND a job, not collectively bargain and you don’t get tenure. No guaranteed pensions. You prosper from the sweat of your brow, not mine. Welcome to real life, free-loaders.
Effeminate protester from the video: “This is a very anti-democratic message”. You’re d*mn right. This is a republic not a democracy.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:37pmI like this Gov. I wish we had one like him in every statehouse and the whitehouse. We need more of these types in the goverment that will not take it sitting down!
http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:38pmHershey and Anti-spock,
Actually, it’s in her jeans.
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:41pmChuck, you could not be more wrong. The last president I voted for was george w bush in 2000. I regret that vote and have not voted since because I, like many americans, have not been presented with a worthy candidate for which to vote. You can blindly follow schills like beck who have you seeing red, it wont help our country.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:54pmI like him already…we could use one of him in Oregon…bunch of sissies run our state…about time we get some big mouthed republicans…tired of hearing big mouthed librals/democrats..
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:54pm@ginsberg
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:41pm
Chuck, you could not be more wrong. The last president I voted for was george w bush in 2000. I regret that vote and have not voted since because I, like many americans, have not been presented with a worthy candidate for which to vote. You can blindly follow schills like beck who have you seeing red, it wont help our country.
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Why do you call Beck a shill? Beck is telling us what his researchers find out about the people running our government. Van Jones didn’t think Beck was a shill when Jones resigned in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend because Beck exposed what he is!
If anybody is selling a bunch of goods, calling it one thing when it is the exact opposite, it’s the usurping shill in the White House.
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:08pmBeck thinks people like jones who never had much power are a bigger threat than a financial industry that ran the country into the ground. How many shows did beck do on corrupt bankers and banks? He spoke out once on goldman saccs then questioned whether it was a good idea to do so…shiiilllll.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:14pmWTH .. people would rather be lied to by a slick talking teleprompter reading politician? We already have Obama for that!
Report Post »I-HATE-THE-WORD-DISENFRANCHISE
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:26pmLePage for president. This country needs someone to be blunt.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:38pmThe girl reading the names- what a loser. You’re working yourself up and making yourself “cry” over people who died in a fire in New York over 100 years ago. What? What in the H does that have to do with you? New York is does not even border Maine, and newsflash: accidents happen. Those people would be dead now anyway. In any historical event older than 100 years ago, all the people are dead now. Billions of people have come and gone in earth’s history, maybe that’s why you are involved in this theatre of the bizarre (and emotional masturbation) instead of learning something useful- like history; history would teach you that your love of socialism has a grim track record. Why don’t you cry for the millions murdered (not accidental deaths like the fire) under communist rule? Because you’re an idiot, that’s why.
Also, blubbering in front of a crowd does not make you look deep or somehow more sympathetic to others. People only ever cry for themselves, no one else. Either you identify with someone and feel sad, or you don’t identify with them and feel nothing. In the end it’s all about you. Crying for names in a history book just makes you look like the dramatic, egomaniacal narcissist that you are: you see yourself everywhere. Go home to Mum’s mansion in Camden.
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:27amSlowly I Turned, Step by Step, Inch by Inch………..and than Obama Falls.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:54amJZS wrote:
“As the AP says, this appeals to his base, not so much to other people. He didn’t talk like this during is campaign. I guess we’ll see how many people vote for him next time around.”
JZS, when are you and your kind going to get it.
This man obviously does not care if anyone votes for him next time around. He is there to do a job, and he is going to do it. Without thought or care of what any of you tools think of him, or of what he is doing.
This is exactly as it should be. No one can govern “rightly” if they are constantly worried about offending, or pleasing this or that constituency.
This is why term limits are an absolute necessity. Very short term limits.
Three cheers to Mr. LePage. May GOD bless him in all his endeavors.
The utter stupidity of the left is just beyond reason.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:32amNot sure I would always agree with everything he says, but I have to admire a man who believes what he says, and isn’t afraid to ignore the bleating of all the politically correct idiots around him.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:51amAs long as he continues to tell progressives to go to h*ll, he get’s a check from me. I like straight talking people. You never have to guess where they stand.
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Mikeyyy
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:08amwell said Spock.
i hope he gets re-elected
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 3:38amWe will see, JZS!
Report Post »proudconservative
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:11amI actually find the guy refreshing he actually speaks his mind and isn’t worried about the latest polls and which way the wind is blowing before he makes statements. We need more leaders like that, I am tired of politicians weighing each of their words carefully and trying so hard not to offend some special interest group. Leaves him plenty of energy to focus his concerns on the real problems and solutions and not on what is popular and pc.
Report Post »litrex
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:30amMaybe we can get him to come to RI when he’s done shaking up ME
Report Post »Hope he keeps it up!
28_ID
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:10amI gotta like guy/girl who doesn’t mince words and just lets it rip.
Report Post »Maine932
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:22amDear Ginsberg,
Report Post »For the life of me…I have never understood how paying a teacher more money will make a student smarter…? How about making a student smarter and therefore DESERVING higher pay! What a concept, earning ones deserved pay raise…nah!
hopefulmainer
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:11amThe whole kiss my butt comment was provoked! Gov. LePage was asked to attend this event (which he had done for many years prior), however this year he had something he felt was more important to attend (funeral of a Maine State Trooper). But because he did not attend he was labeled a Bigot and Racist because the NAACP comes first and foremost over everything.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:08am@ GINSBERG………..You are such a doofus!!! Guess what your dear leader BO is doing with medicine (I am a physician). Physicians pay from medicare will soon be based on quality of care markers. Meaning that my pay will depend on my performance. I am fine with that, but my question to you is why teachers are not held to the same standard????????? Your positions are walking contradictions just like your ideology.
Report Post »zancudobob
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 3:07pmAS A FORMER RESIDENT of the Great State,( logging, lobstering, construction), local Town Gov’t. ( Bowerbank(pop.18) Selectman) I applaud this man. It’s time a straight talker stanched the flow of red blood in that N.E. state. Time to transfuse it with MORE RED, not GREEN! Get some GUTS, Mainer’s, you‘re turning into a bunch of WHINER’S.
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