Pig Paul LePage endorses notorious racist-bigot-misogynist to primary an incumbent GOP state Senator

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Larry Lockman launches bid to unseat incumbent Sen. Kim Rosen with LePage’s endorsement

https://bangordailynews.com/2019/07/16/politics/larry-lockmans-run-against-incumbent-kim-rosen-again-splits-lepage-senate-republicans/?ref=comm-from

A Penobscot County legislator and arch-conservative agitator who has said Democrats are waging a “war on whites” kicked off a 2020 run against an incumbent Republican state senator on Tuesday with an endorsement from former Gov. Paul LePage.

The move from Rep. Larry Lockman, R-Bradley, is expected to set up a primary with Sen. Kim Rosen of Bucksport, a low-key lawmaker who was endorsed Tuesday by party leaders who share her worry that Lockman’s nomination could surrender a safe red seat to Democrats.

For two Republicans, Lockman and Rosen could hardly be more different. He most often submits dead-on-arrival legislation largely intended for messaging. When asked about her service, Rosen focuses on local issues in the district with an odd geography stretching from Castine through Brewer to Lincoln — and meeting constituents at their homes and over coffee.

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In 2014, a staffer for the liberal Maine People’s Alliance unearthed letters from Lockman to Maine newspapers from the 1980s and 1990s. One asked why rape should be illegal if abortion is not. Another blamed the AIDS epidemic on progressives who he said labeled “sodomy” as “a legitimate alternative lifestyle, rather than a perverted and depraved crime against humanity.”

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