LePage Spokesman says GOP will use state workers to re-elect Republicans.

[NWHarkness]

Of all the over the top nonsense to come from the LePage gang, this tops them all:

From a leaked email sent by LePage's Communication Director Dan Demeritt:

"I'd like to connect the week before Christmas with you and key staff. If you are not in town, we can hopefully get some of your staffs putting together some of the resources / information we are going to need to get rolling. Once we take office, Paul will put 11,000 bureaucrats to work getting Republicans re-elected."

http://www.dirigoblue.com/diary/2506/once-we-take-office-paul-will-put-11000-bureaucrats-to-work-getting-republicans-reelected

[jpak]

1. State police officers and game wardens are now 'bureaucrats' to be used to get republics reeelected?

LePew - trou de cul

yup!

[SteveG]

2. Clear violation of State Law in Maine

http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/5/title5sec7056-A.html

Here is what the Chair of the Maine Democratic Party had to say

MDP Chairman Grant: LePage Must Denounce State Employee Strategy

AUGUSTA- Today, Maine Democratic Party Chairman Ben Grant issued the following statement in response to the leaked memo from Governor Paul LePage's transition team. The memo details plans to enlist the entire state workforce in LePage's re-election campaign.

"Paul LePage had the gall to stand before all of Maine at his inauguration and say 'My pledge to the Maine people is to put you before politics.' We now know that like much of what he says, this was a flat out lie. Paul LePage's honesty problem grows larger every week.

"This is not "People before Politics." The governor must denounce this plan immediately if he ever wants Maine people to again trust his claims that they are his top priority, and not his own re-election"

"Using state resources to influence partisan elections is a clear violation of a statute prohibiting state employees from engaging in partisan political activity in their capacity as State employees. The 11,000 men and women who work in Maine State Government are not political pawns.

"This is bordering on the absurd. From appointing the least qualified commissioner in Maine history to DECD, to eviscerating cherished environmental standards, to insulting the NAACP, Paul LePage has shown clearly that he has no interest in the 61% of Mainers that don't want an extreme and embarrassing governor."

[Jane Austin]

3. Denounce?

If this breaks Maine law, he should be in jail.

[gratuitous]

4. It worked for the Bush administration

And they didn't get punished for it. Why wouldn't LePage do it? And, once the deed is done, it will once again be time for lookin' forward to the future instead of lookin' backward to the past, and politicizing a whole bunch of stuff, like political campaigns, and we all know how the voters just HATE that, don't we?

And if you think this tops the nonsense from the LePage Gang, I say, wait until next week. Or tomorrow. Or for an hour. The shenanigans never stop, the criminality marches on unabated.