The Governor of Maine, Paul LePage, is quite the Tea Party douchebag. He is constantly having to apologize for the stupid shit coming out of his mouth.
One reporter epically trolled LePage at a press conference. Stand-up comedian Andrew Ritchie was in Maine on vacation when he met up with fellow comedian, Jamie Roux, and they went to a “town hall” meeting with LePage.
His meetings include an opportunity to ask questions, but LePage’s press secretary picks and chooses which ones she will allow. Ritchie runs a software developer business, so he asked LePage how he could bring a business to Maine with all of the hate going on.
Most recently, LePage said that black drug dealers were peddling in Maine. He said that have names such as “Smoothie” and “Shifty.”
LePage referred to this incident when answering Ritchie’s question:
“Let me tell you this, explain to you, I made the comment that black people are trafficking in our state, now ever since I said that comment I’ve been collecting every single drug dealer who has been arrested in our state … I don’t ask them to come to Maine and sell their poison, but they come, and I will tell you that 90-plus percent of those pictures in my book, and it’s a three-ringed binder, are black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Connecticut, the Bronx, and Brooklyn.”
Now, LePage is openly talking about resigning. Prompting of these comments, LePage left a nasty voicemail for Democratic state Rep. Drew Gattine after people started asking for that “three-ringed binder” LePage referred to.
Gattine, among other politicians, had criticized LePage for the remark he made answering Ritchie’s question.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage and Donald Trump: a match made in heaven. pic.twitter.com/TiJYgU3FYe
— Jonathan Drake (@Duck_person) August 4, 2016
LePage couldn’t just apologize to Gattine, he had to try and blame Ritchie as well. He said:
“After speaking with Representative Gattine, I think that the reporter who put the mic in my face owes the people of Maine an apology as well, because [Gattine] never called me racist. He said I made racially [charged] comments. Maybe, in my mind, it is semantics. But in his mind, after talking to him, it was clear that there was a real difference. Fine.”
LePage is saying he will never talk to the press again. I hope the people of Maine will vote him out.
Here are The Young Turks talking about this incident:
Featured image via Twitter.
