LePage’s drug arrest photo binder undermines 90% black, Hispanic claim
Source: Bangor Daily News
More than half of the photographs filling a binder that Gov. Paul LePage cited as supporting a claim that upward of 90 percent of suspects arrested in Maine on opiate-trafficking charges are out-of-state “black and Hispanic people” are instead of white drug defendants.
The Republican governor’s office released the 148-page file on Monday after public access requests from the Bangor Daily News and other media outlets. The American Civil Liberties Union called it “an incomplete collection of newspaper clippings and emails” used “to make false, inaccurate accusations about people of color.”
But the binder alone doesn’t prove LePage’s point: Of 93 pictures of people arrested for drug crimes in it, 57 are apparently white, according to a BDN count.
The binder also showed that LePage was interested in tracking down photos of many of the defendants. One handwritten note asked staff to “file pictures” from a Brewer meth lab arrest in May “in my binder for historical value.” Before the words “historical value,” the word “poster” was written and crossed out.
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Racist sack 'o republican shit
yup
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I think it mentioned other unusual building designs along with that one. I still have an old picnic basket that looks just like that from the '60s. 
The website where I found this pic indicates it was made by "Red-Man Baskets" in the '50s (which actually makes sense - this was my mother's - I grew up with it always being around when I was little in the '60s). The company was actually "Redmon" (the family's name, which was eventually used on their products after they ditched the use of "Red-Man" and an Indian Head logo).
The company sticker or whatever on mine fell off of it years ago but the design is exact. I have my mom's artificial fruit in it! I know that fruit has to be older than I am (>54). lol The internet is an amazing thing!
is the story they are trying to promote. They don't want to admit that their own Mainers are doing it.
Heroin has become a nation-wide problem in rural areas everywhere. Surely it's not all from those nefarious looking "urban" types forcing innocent children to do drugs? Pay no attention to the pharma companies, that's just medicine. 
Vice captures it accurately. This video is West Virginia but it applies to any rural American state. Watch the whole episode if you can.
Several states sued the drug companies for knowingly advising dangerously high dosages for opioid painkillers.
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-attorney-general-opiod-lawsuit-20160922-story.html
