LePage blasts ‘socialist’ lawmakers in written State of the State

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage repeatedly hammered “socialist” Maine lawmakers in this year’s written State of the State address, delivered to the Legislature on Monday.

The Republican governor largely used the address to drive home the same talking points he has stuck to for the past year: He called for welfare reform, lower income taxes, more drug agents and higher pay for state police to fight Maine’s drug crisis.

Among the few surprises in the address were details on LePage’s plan for fighting student debt — which he has teased at recent town hall meetings. He called for a $10 million state bond for interest-free student loans and said employers who pay off student loans should receive equivalent tax credits.

But the address was most notable for its 12 references to “socialism.” He said “efforts by Maine socialists to turn our state into Greece, Cuba, Venezuela or the former Soviet Union are moving us backwards at a rapid pace.”

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LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!111

[Snotcicles]

1. What an embarrassment he must be to the people of Maine. nt

[jpak]

2. Like Trump, he is an endless source of entertainment

[SoapBox]

3. So he should get off the roads? Not expect snow plows?

But if it came to giving corporations tax breaks...

Such an idiot.

[jmowreader]

4. "Interest-free student loans" sound pretty socialistic to me

[Kip Humphrey]

10. Yeah... dam sosolst!

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Does this buffoon realize the damage he has done

to the "Maine" brand? Seriously.

I, for one, skipped a trip this year.

[bluedigger]

6. LePage aligning himself as an anti-socialist can only be good for socialists.

[Tempest]

7. Lower taxes and more drug agents

Did he say how he was going to pay for it without tax revenues?

[COLGATE4]

8. Doesn't even have the balls

to do it in person. He had to call it in. Asshole.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. I seriously wonder about that man's sanity.

[jmowreader]

11. The Democratic response to his State of the State address

Article 9, Section 5 of the Maine Constitution: Removal by impeachment or address. Every person holding any civil office under this State, may be removed by impeachment, for misdemeanor in office; and every person holding any office, may be removed by the Governor on the address of both branches of the Legislature. But before such address shall pass either House, the causes of removal shall be stated and entered on the journal of the House in which it originated, and a copy thereof served on the person in office, that the person may be admitted to a hearing in that person's own defense.

[Odin2005]

12. What a nut case. Isn't he of Quebecois origin? I usually expect such people to be rather liberal.

[Joe Chi Minh]

13. Damn right ! They need antisocial legislators.