Stephen King: Maine Governor Is A ‘Bigot, A Homophobe, And A Racist’

[left-of-center2012]

King, who is a longtime Maine resident, sent the tweet after the governor used a homophobic slur against a Democratic lawmaker because he believed the man had called him a racist.

Earlier in the week, LePage said he keeps a binder filled with mugshots of everyone who had been arrested for dealing drugs in the state, and that more than 90 percent of the people in it were black or Hispanic. Ninety-five percent of Maine residents are white, according to U.S. Census data.

On Friday, the governor denied that police were engaging in racial profiling in arrests for drug dealing, and called people of color and Hispanics “the enemy.”

Last year, LePage accused King of leaving the state to avoid taxes ― a claim that wasn’t true. King said that LePage should “man up and apologize” to him, but the governor refused.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephen-king-paul-lepage_us_57c1fed0e4b026734450618d?section=&

[brucefan]

1. uh-oh

Mr. King's gonna get a nasty voicemail.

[HassleCat]

2. I think his books suck, but I agree with him.

[RBInMaine]

3. You have a right to your opinion, but he gets good reviews and is crying all the way to the bank.

[HassleCat]

4. I know.

Many, many people like his sucky books. His sucky books get made into sucky movies. He earns millions and millions of sucky dollars. He seems like a decent guy, so good for him.

[left-of-center2012]

5. Well, you know what they say about opinions ...

They're like ____. Everybody has one.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. Some of his work was below par. If horror isn't your thing then just say so.

[HassleCat]

11. Horror is not my thing.

If it were, I don't think I would go for the King variety. "Night of the Living Dead" would be more my style.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

13. NofLD is movie genre, not lit.

So what do you have against Steven King then?

[shenmue]

6. Preach it!

[Yavin4]

9. I sense a new King novel will be out soon with a character that's a governor and an asshole

and some very, very bad things happen to him.

[Submariner]

10. LePage had "North Woods Law" TV program cancelled too

The jerk off also cancelled one of my favorite TV shows.

http://mpbn.net/post/what-ended-north-woods-law-maine#stream/0

It was a good program for showing off Maine's outdoor resources.

[bigwillq]

12. Didn't know that

I loved NWL.