AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage is considering a special, pre-election session of the Legislature this fall to propose an initiative that he says will “push the envelope” and further polarize Democrats against him.
But the governor isn’t divulging much about his plans, leading Democrats to criticize him for a lack of transparency and a partisan approach to governing, and leaving members of both parties around the State House wondering exactly what he has in mind.
LePage’s spokeswoman, Adrienne Bennett, confirmed Thursday that LePage is considering a special session this fall, but refused to say why.
“There is still further analysis to be done,” she said. “Therefore, it would be premature to share information about the substance or nature of why a special session is being considered.”
The confirmation from Bennett came the morning after LePage told a Bangor Republican Committee gathering of his plans to “interfere” with pre-election campaigning and summon lawmakers back to Augusta “in the near future.” But first, he said, he’s checking with the state attorney general’s office to see if what he has in mind and the special session are allowed by Maine’s state constitution.
“I’m just trying to do what other Republican states have done this year, and I’ve got to wait before I say too much more about it,” LePage said in a recording obtained by Bangor Daily News blogger Mike Tipping. “But what I’m telling you is this: If we get this done, the state of Maine will be on the right track for the next 10 years. I promise you that.”
A spokeswoman for Attorney General William Schneider’s office didn’t immediately confirm the governor had consulted the office about his proposal.
Article V of the Maine Constitution allows a governor to call a special legislative session “on extraordinary occasions.” And legislative Democrats on Thursday pointed out that a special session costs the state about $35,000 a day.
Assistant Senate Democratic leader Justin Alfond of Portland said he couldn’t think of an issue that rises to the “extraordinary occasions” level.
“We as a state have just closed our fiscal year. We have money after our fiscal year is closed,” he said. “There’s a threshold in order to call a special session for a reason.”
Alfond of Portland and House Democratic leader Emily Cain of Orono called on LePage to make his plans public.
“The governor, when he came into power, said that his administration would be the most transparent administration the state has ever seen,” Alfond said. “Last night’s discussion with donors, Republican strategists and activists again illustrates how Gov. LePage is governing through secrecy, through fear and only representing a small portion of the state of Maine.”
Cain also criticized LePage for using a “blatant partisan tone” in his Wednesday remarks.
“We’ve done some work together,” she said. “It’s discouraging to me that the governor would lead with something very partisan. I certainly don’t think this is the way you build credibility for the need for a special session.”
Republicans knew just as little as Democrats about the governor’s plans Thursday.
Jim Cyr, spokesman for House Speaker Robert Nutting said, “There’s been no communication between the governor’s office and the speaker’s office on this. He doesn’t know what the governor has in mind.”
Senate President Kevin Raye said he hadn’t heard anything about a special legislative session this fall before hearing LePage’s comments.
“The governor has the right to call the Legislature back in,” he said in a statement emailed to reporters. “However, since he has not yet presented a proposal, it would be premature to pass judgment on the value of a special session.”
Sen. Richard Rosen of Bucksport, who is chairman of the Legislature’s budget-writing Appropriations Committee, attended Wednesday night’s GOP event and said LePage’s remarks were news to everybody there.
“It may not be even that definitive,” he said. “I think it’s very speculative at this point.”
It’s unclear when LePage might schedule a special session, but the Senate will be in session on Sept. 6 for confirmation votes on a number of gubernatorial appointments.
While LePage’s plans are unknown, the states with Republican governors he presumably referenced have in recent years attempted measures to limit unions’ collective bargaining rights, eliminate teacher tenure and require that voters show photo identification at the polls.
If LePage targets collective bargaining rights, he can count on major resistance from the state’s unions and a repeal effort if his initiative passes legislative muster, said Chris Quint, executive director of the Maine State Employees Association.
“Right before an election, to come after collective bargaining rights would be a major mistake for the governor,” he said. “Mainers overwhelmingly support collective bargaining rights.”
And Quint isn’t sure the Republican majorities in the House and Senate would go along with a proposal that chips away at collective bargaining rights. A “right-to-work” bill — which targeted public employee unions’ rights to collect fees from nonmembers who benefit from the unions’ representation — failed in the Legislature last year.
Another proposal from legislative Republicans to require that voters show photo identification at the polls was unsuccessful last year. Instead, the bill turned into a study of the state’s election system. The study group is holding a public hearing in Augusta on Aug. 23 to gather ideas for potential legislation to modify the voting system.
On teacher tenure, Maine law doesn’t technically provide for it, but LePage has been critical of the Maine Education Association, the state’s largest teachers’ union. In May, he blasted the union for taking a position on November’s same-sex marriage referendum and not focusing enough on making sure Maine teachers receive high-quality professional development.
Maine lawmakers this past spring also passed a LePage bill that requires school districts adopt teacher evaluation systems and allows districts not to renew the contracts of teachers rated ineffective two years in a row.
LePage has also been an outspoken advocate of scaling back Medicaid and other state welfare programs.
His administration is awaiting the decision of federal officials on whether Maine can go ahead with about $20 million in Medicaid cuts that will affect coverage for low-income 19- and 20-year-olds, low-income parents and some elderly patients who depend on a prescription drug benefit provided through Medicaid.
I wonder who leaked the recording? I wonder why that person leaked it? Could it be so that LePage has to actually do his “envelope pushing” in full view of the State?
I just popped some popcorn, this is going to get extremely interesting, extremely fast.
Already, the parrots of the right have started the whole, “it is no big deal” hypocritical BS. All the while pretending their hair wouldn’t be on fire if a Democrat had said the same things to a group of other democrats.
I think it was a “planned leak”.
You betcha……………..Just to get under the thin skinned libs. He will have the last laugh.
thank you sarah
Come on, is that all you know? You would not be upset if Obama was holding back on news until he had factual confirmation?
As we all will when he is gone. Gonna be fun watchin him turn purple for the remainder of his term while everyone just ignores him, points and laughs. Hope he remembers to take his blood pressure meds.
Then you better start saving your hard earned money now. Liberals LOVE to spend.
I’m very liberal and I prefer to save!!! Don’t make blank statements!
That was no blank statement. Liberals are famous for spending. I refer to the elected libs, like Pelosi and her jet,. I can continue but is not worth the print.
Conservatives are responsible for most of the National Debt.
You are a laugh.
Maybe they make Depends for the mouth? That might take care of those planned leaks…
A full report about the beer fest and the recording transcript can be readon the Bangor Daily News blog site. It was no leak – just an astute reporter, who thought it would be more than interesting to everyone .
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I hope so but we’d better not hold our breath.
LOLS in your pained comment. thanks.
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Well you can bet that at least 4 Senators and 32 house members that are signed up as puppets to Grover Norquist will be in attendence.
We are in the grips of a Tea Party governor. He is not a republican. He was elected with Koch Brother money.
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It’s like bailing a lifeboat with this guy at the helm.
It is most interesting that no one in the state of Maine seems to know what the governor’s hidden agenda is. One can only assume this is because the agenda is not a Maine agenda, it is a radical tea party, 1%er, Koch bros. agenda.
The only emergency I see that needs legislation is the regressive governor that needs a one way ticket out of here.
Koch bros. blame is passe. Best to get over it. Look for new ones to blame.
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Election Day 2012 will be sweet, as LePage loses both houses of the state legislature. Election Day 2014 will be even sweeter, as we bid sayonara to this sadly insecure man.
Word on the street is that State Employees’s Unions are going to be required to pay the state (tax) to represent union workers. Call it a “anti-business” tax.
The tax will be equal to the amount of union dues collected…Fair share requirements will be terminated immediately! Who wants to be in a SEIU now?
Source?
My guess is he pulled that out of his backside.
If your premonition is accurate it will be sweet for liberal extremists but extremely painful for the citizens of Maine, especially those who foot the bill.
61% of Mainers are not “liberal extremists” unless you are a Birther conspiracy theorist. Oh, I forgot, you are.
By the way, I foot a fair amount of taxes and employ a fair number of hard-working Mainers. I recognize the value of public investment.
I don’t think as many as you have a irrational vehement hatred of LePage.
Very little success in terms of public investment here in Maine. Millions of $$$ in grants with very little oversight and not even a clue of roi.
A birther conspiricist, not I but now that you raise it I think O’Bama satisfactorily documented he was born in the US. I just think he is hiding other parts of his background from public view. He’s got stuff he’s not proud of. But liberals like you want transparency from a candidate but not O’Bama. Why?
You have posted a claim that the President was a foreign student and now try to run from it. Hmmm.
I don’t hate LePage, but I look forward to his departure.
Public investment in off-share wind farms looks quite promising, as do a host of smaller ventures I could point to such as the MDI Biological Laboratory, public highways, etc. Name one other candidate for President of whom educational and birth records have been demanded.
Never stated O’Bama wasnt born here simply kept asking what he is hiding but you see red when anything derogatory is thought of your leader.
No other candidate had the lack of a verifiable backgound to the degree of O’Bama which is why he needs to come clean from whatever he is hiding.
A post by you in Wednesday’s letters section suggests Obama was hiding birth in a foreign country or application as a foreign student to Columbia. To now deny that you questioned his citizenship makes you either a fool or a knave. You may be both.
Neither. I just think he lied to take advantage of possible aid. Something like Lizzy Warren, you libs like to hide behind diversity when convenient, even when its a lie.
What you “think” means nothing.
It isn’t even rational. One’s chance of gaining admission would be higher for an African-American than for an international student. A child born in Africa to an American mother and raised in the USA would never be considered an international student.
These are mindless conspiracy theories that prove you a fool.
Your denial that you are a Birther proves you a knave.
You need to confront your own insecurities and come to terms with them. Then you will be less threatened by people who seem to be different from you. If you understand anthropology you will realize that we all come from Africa: our ancestors simply left the continent in different millenia.
What kind of world do you live. I grew up in NYC and had black kids in my classes from kindergarten thru HS. I went to Sunday School with black kids in my classes. 80% of the kids in my HS and middle school came from the Ravenswoods project. I was a white kid bussed to a black school. How many blacks have you dated. I dated two and we went all the way. How many weddings have you attended where the bride and groom were black. I attended two. How many black managers or peers have you had in your working history. I’m sure none. It is people like you trying not to be racists that are the racists. If two blacks walked down the street toward in your direction you would be peeing in your skirt.
As an African-American woman I am LOL. Proximity to blacks hardly makes one immune to racism: look at many Mississippi whites. Nor does sleeping with a black woman. I encountered a fair number of white men looking to simply get that notch on their belt: they weren’t so different from Massa coming down to the slave quarters.
I didn’t call you a racist, but if you think the shoe fits, then wear it.
Just for the record, once someone uses a play on Obama’s name, I don’t much care what his/her opinion is, and it actually says more about that person than the President.
“simply kept asking what he is hiding ”
I get that, it is just what I think about Romney tax returns, too.
But if you never claimed he not an American and so accept that he is qualified to be POTUS, like he has for getting on four years, now, don’t you have anything more useful to to do ?
Obviously, you support the radicalism of the Tea Party and its splintered republican crew, along with Donald Trump, who refuse to accept the birth announcements of the future president in Hawaii newspapers. They are available on line.
Le Page is carrying out the wishes of the Tea Party. That is simply to divide and conquer with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. You bbviously are a millionaire.
“Your leader” happens to be C in C of the United States Armed forces. Now, your radical Tea Party claims that Obama had nothing to do with taking out Osama Bin Laden. Not only did he do it. He also managed to topple Khadafi, another terrorist. He’s also busy shredding the Taliban, in between exhibiting his birth certificate for the likes of stumbling Romney and Ryan.
More delusional nonsense from TeaRadical land. Yawn.
Are we getting transparency from Mitt? Not willing to show his past tax records tells me what type of transparency we can expect from him/And certainly we can’t call our present gov- the one who was going to be very transparent and open door-transparent. He’s quite transparent in that he’s not doing what he feels is best for the majority of Mainers and now needs to do his best (worst) work before he loses his majority.
There’s no transparency whatsoever with Le Page. He is a secretive and bullying person whose only goal as “governor” is to serve the Tea Party. Read the transcript.
Le Page dishes out $350,000 for a ridiculous East-West Highway study, and now plans to call a Special Session of the Maine Legislature which will cost taxpayers $35,000 a day. Read the story.
His sole purpose for such a session is nothing more than to disrupt campaign plans of opposition party members. Read the transcript.
As for Obama documenting his birthplace – it has been established over and over again. Read the Hawaii papers and view a copy of his long form certificate and short form issued in Hawaii. The big deal with the splintered republican party and especially the Tea Party is because he is the son of a black man. See Racism.
Le Page has no respect for the people and even less for their vote. Bonds passed by voters he will not recognize.
He is no different than Walker, and the governors of other states who are pushing this Tea Party ideology which is aimed at giving the rich more, and the working class, less.
Of course your extremist. Liberals are blinded by the party rather than what is good..
Just wait for the bush taxes to go bye-bye, so will most small businesses with it.
My small business thrived under the Clinton tax rates, which are, of course, the rates to which President Obama wishes to return. Learn to punctuate.
Republicans can’t see for the tea leaves.
I would say it is the right wing that has put party above country, ideology above patriotism and power above honesty. Look around. We’re not blind.
You do not own the title of employer. Many of us are employers of small businesses and hope to keep our businesses open and productive. Once the liberals get their way and grab the top command, then we will most likely close many of the small businesses. Liberals love to spend and that is fact. Paying our taxes to be in business each month is a constant reminder that liberal spending will shut us down.
Back into your hammock. If you read the Bangor Daily News you will see how your Tea Pot hero is planning – secretly -to bring in a special session of the Legislature at a cost of $35,000 a day. Did you read that?
He made the plans during a beer fest at the Sea Dog in Bangor. Did you read the transcript?
His one and only reason for doing this – corrupt the campaigns of those running against Tea Potters. It’s in his transcript.
Your Mr Biz hid during the current Lobster Blockade by Canadians. Kept his usual trap door mouth, shut tight. Can’t offend the Canadians. Besides he just pledged $350,000 of taxpayer’s -republican, democrats, independents -money, to study an East-West Highway for the Canadian’s benefit.
Maine is renowned for hundreds of small businesses. There are businesses you don’t even know exist. One of Maine’s biggest small business pursuits is lobsters. We harvest more than any other state-including Kansas. Hundreds of lobster fishers and their stern people ply themselves to the trade each day. They’ve been at it for decades – rain, sleet, snow, storms – who cares? You close your businesses “if the Libs get in” Lobster fishers and many other small businesses couldn’t give a hoot. Visit the coast. Watch the fleets.
Assuming there was a “Beer Fest”. is merely your assumption. Gov. Le Page was not hiding during the recent lobster blockade. If you read other news sources you would know this to be factual. The BDN leans so far to the Left is will soon be in the septic.
You need not waste time describing the lobster fishers. Our family has total respect for them all. Each month we pay into our state taxes we are reminded of the expenses we pay for. Love the coast and have been out on lobster boats.
Septic? You T-tards were born and bred in toxic Dick Army sewage and continue to incubate in it.
If “not hiding” – then what did he say? What did he do? Why didn’t he do anything? He’s so liberal with the Canucks though, isn’t he?
And you T-Tards don’t own the symbols of the American Revolution, the Constitution, the flag and the eagle. they belong to all Americans. the did before your astroturf BS came to media attention and they will long after your dismal, corrupt movement goes the way of the do-do.
“61% of Mainers are not liberal extremists”. I am willing to bet that these 61% of Mainers that you talk about . They wouldn’t be the same group of folks collecting goverment welfare handouts right now. These folks are liberal extremists they have been the ones complaining since LePage and Republicans won the election nearly 2 years ago. The same crowd that has fought every proposal that creates jobs and moves this state foward. It’s the same crowd who wants to return to the failed record of the past. It’s about time these 61% get “hurt” as the Democrats put it because they have no reason to have this state move foward in a positive direction. If they are collecting welfare handouts why would they want to change direction to a more prosperous direction that benefits us all.
Why, under LePage and his party, has this state created fewer jobs per capita than any other state in the region? If you think 61% of Mainers are on welfare you are as delusional as our Governor.
Mr Biz remained strangely silent when the Canadians blocked our lobsters from being processed in Canada.
Chellie Pingree on the other hand, captured two markets. One in Portland and the other in Bar Harbor. She got cruise lines to line their galleys with Maine lobsters. Chellie was doing this whilst Charlie Summers was attacking Chellie’s and her husband’s bank accounts.
Did Le Page blast the Canadians like he’s blasted everyone else in this state – from fire fighters to school teachers and even students? All phony assertions, but all in line with the Koch brothers ideological plans for a Plutocracy – rich for the rich – and to hell with the working people.
Over the weekend, Le Page brashly asserted he was going to wreck the campaigns of opponents to his Tea Party by calling a – $35,000 a day – Special Legislative Session.
This crap about being a tax supported Liberal is like over cooked pork.
This Liberal never took a dime from unemployment, food stamps, food lockers, handouts, and whatever else you’re claiming Liberals do.
But then, I’m no different than a lot of Mainers who have worked all their lives without having to resort for help from the town or state. That’s one item in life we all share – work. It’s something we have to do, regardless of party preferences, or affiliation.
When you’re digging ditches, or, baiting lobster traps, no one seems to give a hoot whether you’re republican, democrat, or, independent. Same way in the service. Who gives a hoot, as long as you pull your weight?
Liberalism is not the sole property of Democrats or Independents. There are some republicans, non-corrupted by the Tea Party ideology, who believe that assisting the less fortunate is not a party option.
Reading through the full transcript of Mr. LePage’s comments to this group one can’t help but notice the frequent and odd use of “I” 18 times! Now one must ask, who and what does that tell you about where this man’s true interest lies? We’ve seen that he sometimes thinks of someone other than himself, just look at what he’s done for some of his family members. How often does he think about Mainers in general? Hmm…not so much. Well, unless it’s to tell us how much we drag him down.
Le Page = Me, me, me……
Does your statement imply that cheard is a psychic?
liberal liberal liberal bla bla bla…More gasbaggery from delusional TeaRadicalLand. LeBUFFOON is a JOKE, the TeaRadicals are a JOKE and a pathetic collection of corporate pawns and toadies who take from the poor and middle class and give to the rich. Well have fun in goofyland while you still can, because come November your silly little teaparty is OVER. And you know it.
Apparently the Gov.’s plan DID work and your skin is thinner than paper.
The Governor has no plan. He simply follows orders. I laugh at him and at the fools who think he could ever be re-elected.
Apparently you do not want to see the truth. The Gov. Does follow orders of the laws. The so called, “Fools” will surely have the last laugh…………….at you.
Learn to punctuate and people will not think you a fool. Learn to be less thin-skinned.
Very nasty at punctuation eh? Thin skinned is for you libs. And it takes a Fool to call someone a Fool.
So, you’re admitting to being a fool? Gotchya.
If you were a security adviser for a Maine State Legislator could you, in good conscience, advise your client to attend Le Page’s “special session” ?
How this has been leaked out , it has all the earmarks of Wily Coyote/ ACME Corporation, cartoon style trap.
The trap was opened at the Sea Dog Brewery where Le Page frothed over about the damage he was going tiok cause with a $35,000 a day Special Session. Read the transcript, Wily Coyote.
I’ve begin to think of this as Pauly’s Snipe Hunt.
“I’m going to be honest with all of you here, especially all you incumbents. I’m going to interfere with your campaigning “,
… with no by your leave, or please and thank you ?
Why isn’t that is interfering with the election process.
It is old cheap management trick, like mandatory overtime, after a wage cut. And how real election fraud works around here.
It smacks of how they ran the GOP Primary … into the ground.
So why should the Legislators stop campaigning and go to the Statehouse when they already know that it is all just that little, chubby LePage bully ‘s plan to steal some more candy and leave them holding the bag ?
See ? It is so just a snipe hunt.
Many are called, but …
Is there a minimum quorum required to actually call the Legislature, or State Senate into session ?
If so, someone should do the math relative to fighting his need to get a little outta State respect and some more bad National press by being just like some other GOTea governors.
His personal experience appears to that people from the other States do not respect people from Maine.
Okay. In his case I’m not going to doubt that is what he has been experiencing. But Paul, you are in a hole, so stop digging.
But if he insists, if he wants Maine to be just like Wisconsin,
where their Governor was defied for weeks,
and their Statehouse was occupied by it owners,
shouldn’t he have to pay his dues, too ?
So what if …. LePage created an emergency … a new front in the class war… their war on the middle class… calls a special session to deal with emergency that he has become, and no-one he needs there came … but everyone else, showed up to laugh at him ?
Class warfare ?
Bring it on, Paul LePage.
We all know how out gunned you are in anything having to do with real class .
Legislators need to stand up this bully. He’s been allowed too much rein over the past two years. Whether they can all depends on whether they have the balls to do it. So far, except for one or two legislative critics – they just follow like lost sheep.
Ok hammock. The second you stop blaming “the liberal media” for everything that does not tow the Fox style line, we will move on as well. Deal? Also, the responding to every comment below with “lib” comment is somewhat sad, no?
The blame of liberal media is actually reality for anyone who does NOT watch FOX. The ‘lib’ comment useage is fitting here at this paper. totally.
Yea, totally. FOX is totally this country’s only credible news source. Totally. The like 8-9% of people who regularly have their opinions spoon fed to them from FOX are totally the only informed people out there. No gasbags and bimbos on that network! Totally.
Pardon me, but what is a Gasbag? Is that the Lib name for hot air? FOX. I personally do not watch that.
So we should take the gospel that comes from the folks on CNN, MSDNC and Current/AL Gore TV. All 3 networks have lost significant amount of viewers as of late. With CNN reporting they only have a few hundred thousand now tuning in to the junk that comes from folks like Wolf Blitzer and John King. Say what you want about the conservative or independent way of news reporting but at least they aren’t going to shill for an administration and a party that is so out of touch and has lost its way with the people. Liberals need to respect all points of view because it makes for a better discussion and a better country in the long run.
This is foolish. Fox happily shilled for the Bush adminstration. I, and others who are not towing the right wing line are also “the people” Also, the reason those networks are all losing viewers is because cable TV sucks and folks on the liberal side don’t enjoy having their opinions spoonfed to them as much as those on the right. This is why Fox is the highest rated cable news network.
If you were a liberal you would realize how NOT liberal “the media” are.
Thanks for the chuckle. Passe…….lol
perhaps that was too much for you. KOCH BROS> are tiny in comparison to many Italians.
Source?
NYT, USA TODAY/ ECONOMIST/ AMERICAN THINKER/ LONDON TIMES/ WASHINGTON TIMES……………………….
With astonishingly poor grammar Paul LePage stumbles through yet another divisive statement. This time outlining a “secret plan” with a group of GOP/Tea Party members at a local bar (yep, this is the kind of place where he and they must feel they do their handy work). He says nothing, says it badly, and initiates nothing but dismay, confusion and (For some) fear. More bullying 101? Think he knows that his reign of uncontested power and abuse over Maine people will effectively end on November 6th when he loses his current House and Senate majorities?
Paul, if you can’t change the fact of those inevitable losses, then you might just as well pipe down. On that day all Mainers you’ve insulted (80-90% of us) over the last two years will surely make you irrelevant.
Easy on the bar comments Relaxin! I just found out Obama had a brewery installed in the White House. It was the first story I’ve read about him in almost 4 years where I thought he was a good guy! Some of my best ideas come when I’m sitting with the guys in a watering hole exchanging ideas. I’m not saying what LePage is attempting to do is right, because I’m really not keen on the idea of anyone pulling a backdoor move but don’t put down those of us who like a good local brew. My biggest problem with the story is it wasn’t done at Gaeghans! LOL
Can you EVER have a beer with Rmoney?
Nossuh
I wouldn’t want to have a beer with Romney, Obama, Biden, or Ryan to be honest. I’d have one with Gary Johnson though. However, if I’m buying I’d just as head to a VA center and buy a round for someone who’s earned it over someone who’s looking for any reason to take my money and use it for their best interest.
All Mainers have a brewery in their basements.
Democrats are on such an roll is the reason why they already have lost 11 seats in the legislature and we haven’t even voted yet. Thanks to them not having enough enthusiasm to find enough candidates to run for these seats. One of the seats they already lost is Bill Diamond’s seat as well. So it seems to me Republicans have nothing to worry about because they are not the ones who don’t have the enthusiasm problems. It’s liberals who are in panic mode their Democrat Senate candidate can’t even hit 10%. Democrat , I mean Independent Angus King (He’s not fooling anyone) is seeing his support going down as well he is now down to below 50% in the polls. Liberals could also lose Mumble Michaud’s seat as well. So I wouldn’t be proclaiming everything. The Liberals thought they had the 2010 elections in the bag how did that turn out. Democrats better worry about having another bad election and their future which may make them irrelevant and possibly forgettable.
If you’re such an “angry taxpaying patriot” why don’t you spend a few calories telling your corporate toadie TeaPublicans to stop giving hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to oil corporations, and to no-bid military industrial complex corporations, and to the bloated military in general (the most SOCIALIST organization in the world), and all the rest of corporate WEALTHFARE they celebrate. They take from YOU and give it to the rich, and then brainwash into liking it. Pretty sad. A “patriot” are you? Yet you dance for joy when your millionaire corporate masters use offshore tax havens that YOU can’t access so they can pay half or less the tax rates that you do. Gee. Some patriotic isn’t it? You have been pawned by your corporate toadie TeaPublican puppet masters, and it is sad and pathetic. And you can delude yourself about the November elections all you want. Your silly pathetic TeaFoolParty is going to be FINISHED, and that gasbag of a disgrace LeBUFFOON is going to become the lamest of lame ducks. Just look at the pathetic flab-jowled fool. He is searching for a way to hold this pathetic special session with its secret little corporate agenda so he can try to push through more rotten anti-worker, anti-middle class crud. How pathetic. How desperate. He knows his silly little ship is sinking fast. And that come November, his sorry little TeaFool party is HISTORY.
Frankly Gov. Le Page keeps busy at his job. During the summers of the Baldacci reign, most all his photos were on the golf course. Perhaps that is partly the reason Maine is a financial mess.
Republican support of a man like this, like in other Tea Party – governed states has weakened the party.
Yet no democratic Maine politicans have been speaking up against our Governor Paul Lepage.. You know why, because they like the idea that things are being taken care of. because they didn’t have the marbles to do it. They Like and respect Paul.. Ask Emily Cain, she sees the good being done hear.
I have a lot more faith in Governor LePage then I ever did in John Baldacci and I am a democratic, a constitutional teaparty democratic.
What party do you belong to? I’m asking because Liberals have communist agenda and are not democrats.. I believe in virtue. I don’t believe results justifies cheating and that what liberals do.
Don’t tell me. Joe Mcarthy is your hero, right? And I’m sure you smear lipstick all over a great big poster of the your drug addict, drug law breaker, and college dropout hero Rush Limpmind. You know, that “family values conservative” who is on, I think, marriage number four.
Interesting way of expressing yourself. “I am a democratic.” “Liberals have communist agenda.”
Makes me wonder if the Tea Party has been outsourcing its trolls. Are you writing from India? From Bangladesh? From Somalia? Better read your cheat sheets more closely.
Le Page secretly announced he was planning a special session of the legislature to ruin campaigns of opponents to his Tea Party cohorts.
John Baldacci wouldn’t have sat on his tush if the Canadians had pulled the lobster blockade during his term. Neither would King, Reid, Curtis, Longley and all of the others – democrats, indies, republicans.
Your assertions about Liberals (?) having a communist agenda is asinine. The tea party agenda is much more akin to communism, where the favored rule and the poor are slaves. They call it a Plutocracy.
Well, after all, he said that he was going to be transparent!
It’s true, he is like cellophane, we can see right through him!
Come on! The only reason the gov would spend money is responsibly. I’m sure it will be job creating. something that would really help us for the next ten years and beyond. Maybe he’s going to issue those bonds to help out towns and infrastructure. Whoops was that a pig that just flew by my window??
Good news for once would be welcomed…
Maine needs a recall provision.
Then what are you waiting for/ Go ahead and make his day…………….. if you think you can.
You sound so smug hammock………..my guess is come Nov. 6th we won’t be hearing from you much since your little troll king will be deemed irrelevent. Both he and you can stamp your little feet and blow smoke out your ears and no one will care.
I believe you describe yourself and others here…………….
I believe you aren’t very good at this troll thing.
Gov. LePage has more on the ball than anyone writing here. You just refuse to see it. I believe that is referred to as jumping on the band wagon. As for troll, back in their height of pupularity in the 60’s, they were fun to collect.
Thank you for proving my point.
Why did Le Page hide the mural?
Why does Le Page want to spend $35,000 a day for an unnecessary special session of the State Legislature?
Why did Le Page hide during the Lobster Blockade?
Why does Le Page continually harass students, teachers, fire fighters, state workers, the poor?
Why does Le Page want to build an East-West highway and give $350,000 just for a study that has been done dozens of times for decades, with all studies proven useless -except for the Canadians?
Why did Le Page secretly announce plans to sabotage campaigns during a beer bash at the Sea Dog?
Why does Le Page need an interpreter – Adrienne Bennett – to unravel his many “what I meant to say – was” – blow spouts?
Why did Le Page retreat to New Brunswick during the Vietnam War, and remain there until the war was over?
Why does Le Page constantly cite false polls and opinions to the detriment to Maine and its citizens?
Are you a Tea Party member? Teapublican member? Or, Plutocrat? Or, just on standby?
I don’t expect any answers. Just your usual non sequitur to all questions.
He should be impeached. Then a recall provision should be legislated, to guard against future tea party aspirants to the throne.
Sounds like he has no other motive in calling this session except to try to upset Democrats. Is he really this mentally unstable?
And they said that Jesse Ventura, former pro wrestler and Governor of Minnesota was combative.
Who is THEY/ thin skinned whiners?
honey he is merely getting under the skin of the whiners. it has worked.
and how is that productive if it’s the truth?
If you cannot see how productive it is then you are a sorry one.
It could mean people in Maine want and should have better educations.
Well he certainly hasn’t created any jobs so why not change the subject.
He will be fried soon enough either by the ballet box or his poor health.
well Jake, how many jobs have you created?
Oops, the unhinged Hammockbear, ie NRS, is changing the subject again.
Seriously, is that Naran???
He is trying to jam through more anti-job, anti-middle class, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-education, horrid rotten corporate toadie crud before his pathetic teaRadicalparty gets pounded to pieces in November. What a horrid and disgusting disgrace this corporate toadie Stain On The Blaine is.
Let’s hope his secret plan is to amend the Maine Constitution to require that a Governor be literate, and then resign because he is no longer eligible to serve as Governor.
moose tend to have better manners than …………….
than your Governor, right?
no way jose. better than most commenters Here…………….
Including yourself?
That hit the bully right on the head.
The gov.had a lot of visions from a bar stool back in waterville maybe he is having a flash back.Nothing good ever comes out of barroom meetings.of all the state buildings to hold a meeting why pick a bar maybe he needed some liquid courage to get out what his plan was.
Thought the Sea Dog was an eating and drinking establishment. Great menu and food is wicked good. The mere suggestion of “needing liquid courage’, is a poor choice of Assumed description.
You will just have to wait for his announcement.
Liquid courage is the logical explanation for the Governor’s excesses. The second most logical is that he is on a dry drunk.
is that because you know this first hand in yourself?
No question the sea dog is an excellant place to eat drink and be merry i wonder how much taxpayer dollars were spent on the banquet room for this private meeting when the state owns a lot of buildings to hold meetings and how much is going to be spent on calling a special session?
As a matter of fact the Sea Dog has a Banquet Center which is used for
Conference and Meeting space. For 9 years now, actually. Perhaps you have never ventured past the brew pub area to see the professional meeting space…? The property is more than and “eating and drinking” establishment where people receive “liquid courage” and “bar room meetings” are held.
I am sure that everyone who attends the meetings in the banquet room never indulge or imbibe in liquid courage but the question is still unanswered why spend the taxpayers money to hold a meeting when plenty of buildings are availible that is owned by the state but i guess you probably couldnt get canned courage at a state building.maybe the sea dog has ties to the lawmakers and i wonder how much it cost the tax payers for the banquet room
LePage had better begin to figure out how he is going to feed half the people in this State if he does not calm down. Removing health care of anykind, and doing anything to reduce income to the People of Maine is dangerous. Where are Collins and Snowe, they better sit down with MR. Bully and have a long short talk with him. Oh, I forgot, we got Collins and Snowe, well forget that. They are too busy helping individuals. Remember MR. Bully, winter is coming, don’t begin a war on the poor. MAINE people got kinda beat down, with our industry taken away. It is time Maine people begin to ask questions, are we being pushed out, to make room for rich and well to do?? We have a right to be here and a right for good jobs, enough to eat, and affordable housing and yes, some healthcare. This is a Governor of Maine? If Mr. Bully does not like the people here, he should not be governing them.
He is a Bully only in your eyes. If you can do the job better, then you should run for his job.
Never fear,somebody will be taking his job as soon as his term is up. Go Lepage!!!! Keep on going and never come back.
Gee golly, you are full of it and not worth the read.
How did we get to the point of needing to feed half the State? Was it the political domination of the previous 50 years?
No, it was 8 years of unpaid wars, tax cuts to the rich and unfunded prescription drugs brought to you by the Kennebunk drunk, GWB.
How come other states are doing well? Weren’t those states exposed to the same GWB?
Other states are doing well because they haven’t had to deal with LeRage suppressing the business climate by running down Maine and it’s citizens for the last two years.
If you use the article la rather than le, you’ve hit it dead center: it’s French for rabies. Not a bad fit, huh?
Really all of these states are doing well have Republican Governors that advocate for similar agendas. These governors who states are doing well well they are the ones who aren’t afraid to take on the obstruction from Democrats who want to keep the welfare culture going. It seems to me its Maine Democrats and the usual group of folks who rely on government funds are very afraid that they might lose their freebies . If LePage and Republicans continue to fight for working families the same working families that Democrats turn their backs on many years ago.
Welfare culture? Come on. Next you’ll be on about the mythical Voter Fraud.
Maybe you could check out South Carolina. Led by another Tea Party Governor who signed a pledge of fielty to Grover Norquist. I believe their unemployment rate is higher than Maines. Also a ‘Right to Work’ state. Do you wish that we were doing as well as S. Carolina?
Those states are now run by Dems.
other states aren’t look at the deep south red states
Just his cuts.
30/40 years of liberalism almost distroyed this state. The Governor is trying to fix it for the future. You seem to like professional lying kiss butt politicans
35 to 50 Americans die fighting in Obamas war per month and you liberals hide that fact.
3 1/2 years it’s Obamas war
I will agree to disagree, I see NAFTA, going into Iraq, and a huge devalued dollar as a big problem,then, to add insult to injury, a huge flow of money and ideas from away entered Maine in the last 40 years. I think a little of two happen,our industry left for cheaper wages overseas, and some industries were pushed out because they were unsightly to a certain group who have taken over our coast. In any event I cannot justify taking healthcare away, lowering wages, denying food and heat to some of our Maine people who have gotten caught up in the industry flight. I must remind you,Bush was not a liberal, Bush was responsible for Iraq war, yes,a republican,and what has happen, is that the raiding of so many American standbys, SS, PO, and others money to hide the hugh deficet (sp) of the US has caused the feds to hold money from the States,and the States blame the lazy, and etc. and On it Goes.
There must have been a lot of republicans with liberal views.
The Obama War is the Bush-Cheney War inherited by Obama when he took office. He also inherited the resultant huge debt, which the republicans blame him for, too. Bush took a surplus of billions and squandered it. He also has to fit in -somehow – means to help all of the critically wounded and handicapped the Bush-Cheney War created. He also has to deal with the destruction in Iraq and the misplacement of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
In between tackling those issues and a teapublican-blocked Congress, he fulfilled a pledge to take out Bin Ladin. He also wiped out Khadafi as a bonus. His plans for healthcare will stem the leakage in Medicare. He’s also slashed excessive interest rates on credit cards and mortgages. Women can now get full free medical treatment for many health concerns. He saved the giant auto industry by advancing money which is being paid back by a revitalized industry, that was on its knees.
Rom & Rye plan to kill everything including health care. They also plan to charge women who have abortions with murder, and suffer the penalties according to state laws. Contraception will be ruled illegal. No abortions for any women even when raped.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
-H. L. Mencken
Lepage might decide to override the same sex marriage referendum on the ballot this fall. He might have decided that enough is enough for the time being for referendum weary voters, and put it off until 2015.
What a buffoon.
This incompetent doesn’t care about Maine citizens, only about his puppet masters.
He will stop at nothing in causing as much discord and polarization as he can.
Turn Americans against each other.
The Tea Party strategy.
Too bad more people can’t see it for what it is.
Sounds like he’s going to circle the wagons. CALLING ALL RUBBER STAMPS! Make sure you all show up or Paul will take you over his knee! Sounds like he had too many Sea Dog brews and let the cat out of the bag. Hope he left a good tip.
The IPA makes me think more clearly, bet he had a flavored beer for lightweights….
Probably more of the ALEC sponsored political agitation seen elsewhere. However, the Governor may be miscalculating, since Maine’s conservatives by and large aren’t nearly as combative, stubborn or dogmatic as some of their counterparts in the Midwest. If his plan is as radical as he makes it out to be his Special Session may end up as a cold shower.
I’m going to sell all the democratic seats in a Mardens blowout sale.
Surely you refer to whoopie cushions? They would be best suited for the Libs.
The voters don’t have “need to know” status . . .
But it IS okay if Obama keeps people waiting until he has all the facts? Nit pikin is for rednecks.
Sorry you cannot provide an answer here.
A modest suggestion for Landslide LePage. How about getting the Republican majority in the Legislature pass an enabling law that would allow His Highness to rule by decree?
And I wonder why Mainers are so pessimistic about their futures….having this huge buffoon as governor lurking with his MHPC cronies doing everything they can to screw up our humble state whilst casting their evil flatlander shadow over all of us.
Now that he’s declared us a republican/tea party state…..bet that won’t last.
If we are lucky maybe he will announce his resignation, and move on to run something he is capable of like Little Pauls salvage co.
Paul isn’t pandering to people who survive on public funding which is a nice change.
This is saber rattling from a frustrated, petty, small minded bureaucratic sore a…; one who will never be the governor of the entire state, he represents only a twisted ideological minority as his poorly formed oratory reflects.
Apparently you live true to your pen name. Twisted ideological minority, small minded etc. is that all you have?
Well, hammockbear, that’s more articulate than your “Not” posted above in response to another poster. Why not argue the points these posters make by using some critical reasoning and logic, instead of ad hominem attacks and feeble comebacks?
He reminds me of a Monty Python skit, where the black knight gets all his limbs cut off, and still insists on fighting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4
I would prefer Knights of Templar. He is your Assumption. He may just be a She.
you’ll always be a he to me
Being a He is better than being a Donkey……………….
This one might be more on point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xd_zkMEgk
It appears to be a useless waste of time at the BDN comment section. The negativity is overboard . If you do not care for my comments, then just ignore them. You will have more time to accentuate the negatives towards those who are elected in Maine.
Trolls don’t do that;)
There is no logic to your comment. Perhaps it takes a troll to see a troll? This is the time for everyone to unite for a better Maine.
It is most difficult to reply to so many negatives against our governor. Sure he is gruff but he does accomplish tasks and works hard. You can at least give him credit for that.
judging by the number of posts you have on here you are an army of one sir knight of the twisted right. Joust away at those windmills but be careful one doesn’t catch you in the keister and elevate you above your limited capacity and pay grade.
Actually I am purchasing my own wind generator this month. I do not care what you call me. But I do care about the State of Maine..
well and fine, you ask if that’s all I had, it’s your doing. As if you’re the only one who care about this state.
Perhaps dunkie it is time to cave in and grow up. We are on the same side. We want all good for Maine.
As much hot air as you produce, that wind generator should be profitable.
Hot air is a compliment. Many thanks.
I was just about ready to point out to Mr. Hammockbear that he seems to be a party of one. Thanks for pointing that interesting fact out to him.
Baldacci won with 36% the first time and 32% the second time
And the ticket was split ideologically the other way. More false equivalency.
Let’s play a little game. Compare Maine state government and it’s adversaries to the Movie-ANIMAL HOUSE. Now obviously Governor LePage is Dean Vernon Wormer. Who could play (from either side) Larry Kroger, Kent Dorfman, Doug Neidermeyer, Mandy Pepperidge, Babs Jensen,Greg Marmalard, Chip Diller, John Blutarsky, Stork, Katy, Robert Hoover, Eric Stratton,Mothball, Mayor Carmine DePasto, or Marion Warmer? Take your time.
“I’m going to be honest with all of you here. Especially all of you incumbents.” Apparently there’s honest and then there’s honest.
The leaders who have had a positive effect on their populace have, throughout history been those would could unite the people and get them together behind a common cause. LePage is the antithesis of leader out to get the populace together for any positive outcome. He is a leader out to rule his subjects by dividing them and using his position to belittle those who see things differently than he.
NOT………………….
Nice comeback, hammockbear. Meaningful.
It has been said that when people live in the woods too long, they have a great chance of becoming woods queer. Suggest you get to the city.
I puked for the 8 years Baldacci was in there. you liberals are a sick bunch
Do you read what you type?
liberals are a sick bunch but you puked for 8 years …. too funny
No matter what your leanings are, these are truly sad times in this once great country, where you could count upon your fellow American to have your back, and you his/hers, come hell or high water. We are all chumps in this current combative climate. Wake up, sheeple. The politicos could give a hoot about us. We’re just worker bees to them.
“What is done in the dark will be revealed in the light.” So much for transparency! It is just another failed campaign promise.
At the start of Obama’s presidency, he said there would be no closed doors in re: to White House meetings.
Again, why do you insist on referring to Obama when this story is about LePage and LePage only? What is the matter with you?
Maybe you have been in the woods too long. The Obama talk was at the top of this commentary.
He needs to inform us, the people he is actually working for what he plans on doing. Anything less is a complete disregard for the democratic process.
So then WHY is Okay that Obama can do this ??????????????
Facts please?
He has Not to my knowledge. He originally at start of his term promised no closed doors. Really not much difference.
Wow, so when has Obama called a special session of Congress just prior to an election????
The republican/tea potty has no regard for the democratic process. Their goal is a corporate-fascist state. Bunch of punks, much like the brown shirts of the 30’s in Germany.
You do not know what the Tea Party represents.
Neither does the Tea Party.
So very comical. LOLS.
Go ahead and ignore the question. That is because you have tunnel vision. You are afraid to reply about Obama doing whatever he wants as you know it to be true. That is blind lib devotion.
When has Obama said, told his supporters that I am planning something big, I do not know if its constitutional and republicans are going to hate it but we are going to do it anyway? Please tell me? If he did I would be very mad and upset. I do not know what you think he is hiding? Also you are ingnoring the question, when has Obama called a special session of congress to try and force something through before an election?
Where were you when Obama declared that his administration will interpret bills as it sees fit, not as Congress approved them?
like?
Is that was has happened here in Maine? Calling a special session of elected? I refer to the start of the Obama term that he promised, No Closed Doors.
We can only hope that while they are there that they pass a recall provision for our Governor and then we can get rid of this pompous @$$
NEW – poll question:
Do you think it’s acceptable for a governor to never have an original thought?
That would be a great question for the BDN swamp dunkie. Were you describing Baldacci?????
Like a lousy liberal rag poll holds water, it is just a line to the Kool Aide
Maine governor will slap the mean ones to higher frame of simple minds.
“The governor, when he came into power, said that his administration
would be the most transparent administration the state has ever seen,”
Alfond said. “Last night’s discussion with donors, Republican
strategists and activists again illustrates how Gov. LePage is governing
through secrecy, through fear and only representing a small portion of
the state of Maine.”
Wut? Le Page is a retard of enormous proportions.
But it IS okay for Obama to do as He pleases??????????? Pullleeeezee. why do you NOT see the light?
You know what? This conversation is about LePage, not Obama.
FYI, there has already been talk of Obama in the comments here.
False equivalency is a favorite tactic of the right. Don’t be fooled.
You are totally incorrect. You simply described the liberal tactics.
I know you are but what am I?
off subject. please stay on subject.
I will add that Obama promised No closed door meetings…………..hello? Why is that any different?
off subject.
President Obama habitually ignores Congress and the Constitution and receives applause from libs/progressives. Maine’s conservative Governor considers a special session, consults the Attorney General to verify its Constitutionality and is vilified for it. I see how that works!
Facts please?
Regarding BO? Implementation of immigration rules by Executive Order is only the latest example…that we know of.
Vilified by many ignorant whiners is plain to see. Yes, President Obama habitually ignores Congress and is applauded by the libs. Perhaps that is part of the Dumbing Down in America?
Sure hope the lib commentators here are not my neighbors.
Vilified for putting his party before the good of the State of Maine? Using such partisan, outlandish, bullying language means, to me, that he cares nothing about the people in Maine. Only the Republicans in power.
The difference being that the Repubs have already told us that their only goal is to get rid of Obama and screw everyone and everything else. LePug is going to ramrod everything in hid devious little bag of tricks before he loses the edge in legislature. He doesn’t realize that anything he can do can be reversed in the next term. He cares nothing for the will of the majority.
You are super confused!
You are super deceived!
Off subject, cease and desist.
Just like a progressive lib – always trying to silence those with a differing view while attempting to draw attention from the truth. So transparent.
What a snake. Cares about his party alone.
what did Baldacci care about. I remember to well how the Dems wouldn’t seat any republicans on committees. Stop your whining
Quit pointing to someone else as an excuse for bad behavior. Try that next time you’re pulled over for speeding and see what happens.
Are you kidding? He is KILLING our party!
I’m sorry, you’re right. This isn’t the Republican party of 10 years ago.
At the Sea Dog? Beer hall putsch!
The Sea Dog Brewing Company is no ‘beer hall.’ It’s a quality establishment with an impressive banquet facility adjacent to the restaurant and bar.
It took me a while to get your username, Mad Dog 20/20. There is a good description on bumwine.com. It starts with, “As majestic as the cascading waters of a drain pipe…”
I’ve been in the Sea Dog. It’s a nice place. I was just playing around with the infamous Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. Wikipedia notes the beginnings of the putsch naming the ‘”Bürgerbräukeller”, where the Beer Hall Putsch was launched.’ (Launched, ties in well with the Sea Dog.)
My username is not a reference to the brand of wine.
OK, let’s try this. MD stands for medical doctor and 2020 is the year of graduation. Assuming eight years to obtain the degree, that would make you, what?, a high school senior?
That made me laugh – thanks. No, but nice try, Einstein.
You can find just about anything on the internet. So what could MD possibly stand for in addition to Mogen David and medical doctor? Here are some choices; mentally deficient, mass destruction, Mandarin duck, mucosal disease, Mighty Dog, Miller Draft, muy deficiente, millidarcy, minor defect, and the list goes on. How about manic depression with near perfect eyesight?
Just another place to get drunk and eating reheated frozen food
You obviously do not eat there.
There is a lot of speculation going on about what Mr LePage is going to propose for ” special legislation”. And I am not sure why should care about speculation. What we should be concerned with is what we already know to be true.
1) Mr LePage is considering a special session. Why ? Because what he will propose will require the Republican legislators to vote as one in order to get his proposal to pass.
2) Why before election day in November ? Because he must be relatively sure that the Republicans will not be the majority party after November.
3) Why such secrecy about the proposal ? Because it borders on being unconstitutional or his attorney general would not have to be carefully reviewing. Maybe his ruling will be that Mr LePage might want to consider refraining from this activity in the future. Seems to be a favorite ruling of our AG.
Why should these facts we know disturb us ?
1) The proposal is something passed in other Republican States, so it is not an original Maine idea.
Do we really need a proposal from other Republican States ? Personnally I have no need to have legislation passed because some other state did, no matter which party is in control. And if only Republican States are passing it, is it really in our best interest ?
2) Mr LePage needs to get this proposal passed prior to the election because he is afraid We the People will speak up in November and he no longer will have his way quite so easily. So he does not care what We the People think and he has no intention of governing as We the People want.
3) Why such secrecy regarding the proposal ? Because the majority of We the People will probably not support the proposal and if we have time to speak up he might not be able to push it through.
“We the people will speak up in November”. Well the Democrats in Maine are already in a hole because their party couldn’t field enough candidates for the legislature (11 seats already lost). They also have major enthusiasm gap as well having lost badly in 2010. Their senate candidate is only getting 8% of the vote in most polls. The candidate they are relying on King Angus is seeing his poll numbers drop now since the Chamber of Commerce ad which the media in Maine says is accurate. Well now the “King of Maine” is now below 50% in poll numbers and dropping. Mumbles may lose his seat as well. The problem is all their candidates including the current president are not all popular and folks really don’t want to put them back into office because they have seen they aren’t good for anything but collecting a paycheck.
It’s the angry darkcat33!
You sound very afraid.
It’s a waste of time and energy to speculate, silly to claim it’s going to be terrible before anyone even knows what “it” is, and ridiculous to get upset about something that may or may not come to be.
LePage has not been getting as much press coverage as Summers lately. He just wants more attention. There is nothing that could be enacted by a partisan special session of the legislature that cannot be undone by the next legislature, which will not have a Republican majority. He is just batting his gums to get some publicity – he misses having everyone PO’ed at him.
“OK youse guys, listen up, ‘ cause dis is what we’re gonna do…..don’t tell nobody, but I just got it from HQ”
The libs are having a hard time with their panties on this one.. seems to be all bunched up.
8 years of Baldacci felt like my undies were pulled up over my head.
Like the Obama healthcare bill, lets pass it then we can read it..
Liberal Princess Pelosi was praised by you democrats for that move.
I bet you were stunning while wearing a wedgie 8 years. I believe you, you can’t make that stuff up.
This is more of what Nancy Pelosi said.
“You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill,
the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you
have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health
care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care
is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket.
Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s
going to be very, very exciting.
“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,
away from the fog of the controversy.” – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
speaking at the 2010 Legislative Conference for National Association of
Counties, 3/9/10
And more…
“In the fall of the year,” Pelosi said today, “the outside
groups…were saying ‘it’s about abortion,’ which it never was. ‘It’s
about ‘death panels,’’ which it never was. ‘It’s about a job-killer,’
which it creates four million. ‘It’s about increasing the deficit’;
well, the main reason to pass it was to decrease the deficit.” Her
contention was that the Senate “didn’t have a bill.” And until the
Senate produced an actual piece of legislation that could be matched up
and debated against what was passed by the House, no one truly knew
what would be voted on. “They were still trying to woo the Republicans,”
Pelosi said of the Senate leadership and the White House, trying to
“get that 60th vote that never was coming. That’s why [there was a]
reconciliation [vote]” that required only a simple majority.
“So, that’s why I was saying we have to pass a bill so we can see so
that we can show you what it is and what it isn’t,” Pelosi continued.
“It is none of these things. It’s not going to be any of these things.”
She recognized that her comment was “a good statement to take out of
context.” But the minority leader added, “But the fact is, until you
have a bill, you can’t really, we can’t really debunk what they’re
saying….”
LePage has cracked – he’s gone off the deep end.
Throw the GOP out of every office in the State of Maine this November.
Peoples Veto.
Yessah
Imagine a candidate running for governor telling people that if he was elected welfare would be cut and unions would be hamstrung or outlawed. He would go on to promise that the people of the state would earn less money, schools would be worse, the people would be less healthy, and crime rates would be higher. That is the lesson of being a red state, and Governor LePage seems determined to have Maine become another red state.
This governor is an embarrassment to all of Maine.
Shouldn’t he have checked if a special session is allowed before he announced he was going to try and have one
My guess is that Gov. Leplump is planning a Scott Walker type attack on the Maine State
Employees Union. We’ll have to wait for Adrian to explain his recent verbal gibberish to
really see what he and his minions are up to.
Its going to be a plan to pay our bills without borrowing and getting further into debt, something that will drive the liberals insane.The gov got the green lite to cut welfare I would guess,from the fed. ABOUT TIME!
Go ahead LeBUFFOON. Make our day ! You are a bought-and-paid-for TeaRadical corporate toadie hack and nothing else who only answers to your puppet masters: ALEC, the Heritage Center, and the Koch Brothers. And you and your other TeaRadical buddies in these other states you are talking about who are also pulling this ridiculous and disgusting nonsense are just the same. What you are really doing is trying to jam through your corporate middle-class-killing TeaRadical agenda before your sinking ship sinks to the bottom of the electoral ocean. What a pathetic a desperate toadie you are. Because come November, you and all the rest of your little TeaRadical pied piper chorus are going to get CRUSHED at the voting booth. Mainers have had enough of you TeaRadicals. Come November, your silly little TeaParty is OVER.
Please, go ahead and start another ‘Right to Work’ study group. I can’t think of a better way to go and ‘tick off’ the Maine worker, especially right before an election. And I sincerely hope he tries to cut Medicaid. Senior’s are the most prevalent voter’s in the Country, by group, that come out. LePage has done everything short of putting up funeral parlor’s out on every street corner and sideroad in Maine to announce his opposition to a health care program that’s going to help these senior’s, and other’s, in their need for available health care that’s not going to destroy the family’s budget. The ACA is coming and even the most die-hard of GOP and TP member’s can’t stop it. LePage wants to publicly announce he wants a ‘scrap’ in Augusta come the next session, fine. Announce and then put what he’s ‘got’ out there for all to see, not just announce and then start making all kinds of suppossed ‘sudden’ ‘Can’t we all get along’ speeches and other such drivel. The State, and the Country, are looking for real leadership, not more campaign slogan’s and pretty plastic people who make as much sense as a pile of moosepoop going thru a pelletmaker. LePage, at best and on a good day, has barely been able to breakeven. Given his last Budget session last year with the House AND the Senate both overiding his veto, he might as well just sit down and start looking at either want ad’s or figuring the days ’till he leaves for Florida ’cause no one in Augusta is seriously prepared to do any business with him.
And why should they ? The growing E-W Highway mess, his continued bashing of both the Maine workforce and his own State’s kid’s who are trying to go to College’s inspite of his comment’s about their abilty to succeed and achieve, his deliberately ignoring the numerous business communities needs for worker training and re-training needs, the seemingly going no-where DECD move toward getting Bombardier to Brunswick with both Aerospace and Railroad manufacturing opportunity’s that are clearly in both party’s profitable interest’s, and most telling of all, his refusal to comply with the voter’s clear mandate to issue the Bond’s that were previously agreed to by BOTH side’s that are directed at State investment in R&D for manufacturing, training and business start-up’s. And some people wonder why Maine has such a hard time attracting business’s and taking advantage of opportunity’s ? Gee, I wonder why ?
In response to a FOAA request, the AG’s office said it had no documents pertaining to LePage’s super-secret plan for a special session of the Legislature.
This entire episode is yet another example of this man’s inability to control what comes out of his mouth. He obviously spoke about this issue before his team was ready to have it become public. Penguin seems to get himself into trouble every single time he speaks in a public setting. His level of incompetence is unbelievable.
How much longer?
Le Page – a tool of the Tea Party.
He cares nothing about Maine and its people. That’s why he’ll chop Medicare, and send the poor into the gutters, whilst spending $35,000 a day on a special session of the Legislature.Conspiring with other Tea Party governors, he will try and wreck campaigns of those running against his co-conspirators – Summers, and other republicans who have swallowed the Tea Party bait.
That’s what he told Tea Party people who were masquerading as republicans at the Sea Dog. The only reason for the Special Session is to disrupt the campaign plans especially of Cynthia Dill, who is challenging his pet performer – Summers for Sen. Snowe’s seat.
The republican party members who cheered his latest bombast and threats to intimidate the Democrats says a lot about a man who moans poverty, but pushes a $350,000 study for a ridiculous East-West Highway to aid the Canadians. The republicans approve? And now, $35,000 a day of taxpayer’s money – which he says we don’t have. All to sabotage campaign plans of the opposition party.
Le Page’s interpreter says further analysis has to be done – apparently over what her buddy said at the Sea Dog. Adrienne Bennett must be wondering how she will explain what everyone knows, thanks to an astute blogger who caught Le Page’s nefarious plan on tape.
Read the verbatim transcript. It’s another disgusting example of a man whose sole purpose is to serve the Tea Party. The “We’re Open For Business” man remained unusually quiet about the recent and current Canadian-American rift over lobsters. No challenges – nothing. The Tea Party governor could care less.
Sounds like a group of rich pigs, plotting ways to take more money from middle class workers all over the state. Just like other Republican run states have done these past two years. There’s a revolution coming, unless these “elected” officials start putting the interest of Maine families first. We need a government with a responsible middle ground, instead of these two extremist groups we are seeing. Right now, both parties are on track to financially destroy the middle class…
“For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.”
“The governor, when he came into power, said that his administration would be the most transparent administration the state has ever seen,” yeah, and Obama told the American people that he would never try to implement healthcare as a tax…. It’s called politics. The difference is how the person who is writing the story frames it. Everyone gets so upset when theres “speculation” that he may call a special meeting… Where was the coverage when Lepage increased school funding by $63 million? Ruduced DEP permit backlog by 77%? Provided tax relief for 2/3 of taxpayers including eliminating the 2% tax rate for 70,000 low income Mainers? Our arguments are becoming more and more based on what is said rather than what is fact. I dunno about you, but I’m sick of the pessimism; it doens’t solve problems.
Can you provide a reference for the elimination of the 2% tax rate. I can’t find that one. And how does that work? The 2% bracket goes up to $10,200 for a joint return. Will this bracket now have no income tax? Doesn’t that go against conservative wishes? We constantly hear conservatives complain about the 50% who pay no income tax. I would think conservatives would be very disappointed in Governor LePage for letting even more people off the hook.
The change in the top bracket makes no difference for married couples with a taxable income of about $41,000. Their taxes won’t change. But married couples with taxable income of about $290,000 would realize a savings of about $1375.
What a bunch of crap…. Come November you can kiss our A@#$#$%$#@@….
So much for LeTool’s promise of governmental transparency…… as clear as mud per usual.
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Keep up the great work Mr. LePage..
I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL HE GETS OUT OF OFFICE!!!