Things are Heating Up for Gov. LePage

from Bangor Daily News

A while back (January 18) I wrote a quick post about how Mainers were saddled with an accidental Governor; one who was elected with 38% of the vote, and how he was beginning to embarrass Mainers with his rude behavior and speech.  Now it seems to be a national story, and it looks like my prediction that, “Sooner or later he’ll go too far, insult too many people, lose his temper and become a laughing stock.”  Is becoming a reality. Sad.

Now there is a petition campaign to change the laws in Maine to allow a recall of this governor, something this old state has never had to do. I signed this petition, it can be seen at http://signon.org/sign/maine-needs-a-citizen. The goal of 15,000 signers will be met in a day or so. [It was met about noon on April 6. The new goal is 20,000]. It’s fun to look at the totals pile up. All you have to do is hit refresh/reload and several more people will have signed, many with thoughtful comments like:

From his offensive remarks to the NAACP and the President of the United States, his ignorant derision of the effects of toxic chemicals in consumer goods, to his removal of a mural depicting laborers in the State Department of Labor, Governor LePage has managed to offend most of the citizens of Maine and made a national laughing stock of our state. And we are only 3 months into his reign- er- term. The state can ill afford another 45 months of this.

LePage is also a horrible representation of Maine. We should be making national news for the good we do not for our bullying, ignorant governor.

This can’t happen soon enough. In a state that has elected the likes of George McGovern, Susan Collins, Olympia Snow, Margaret Chase Smith, and Bill Cohen — how did we end up with Paul LePage when nearly two out of three of us didn’t vote for him? Never again. Let’s hope Maine can survive the next 4 years of an ignorant-acting despot.

Until now Maine has been free of the type of corrupt, self serving, truth-bending and extreme politics seen in other states. Now it looks like we can’t escape any more. Let’s just get this over as quickly as possible.

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