Maine Governor LePage apologizes for "Gestapo" comment

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Maine Governor LePage apologizes for "Gestapo" comment

NEW YORK | Mon Jul 9, 2012 9:50pm EDT

(Reuters) - Maine Governor Paul LePage apologized on Monday for calling the U.S. Internal Revenue Service the "Gestapo" during criticism of President Barack Obama's healthcare law.

The Republican governor compared the tax agency to Nazi secret police during a weekend radio address on healthcare. "You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo — the IRS," he said, according to local media reports.

Democrats criticized the governor and called the remarks offensive.

"It was not my intent to insult anyone, especially the Jewish Community, or minimize the fact that millions of people were murdered," LePage said in a statement on his website.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/10/us-usa-maine-politics-idUSBRE8681DK20120710

Earlier thread: LePage calls Obamacare an expensive stripping away of freedom, says IRS is 'new Gestapo'

[MADem]

1. Ugh, what an asshole. Poor Maine really stepped in the shit with that guy. nt

[Bluzmann57]

2. These clowns always speak first

And then "apologize" afterwards. I say no more acceptance of their weak non apology apologies. Hold their feet to the fire.

[DCKit]

3. Too late to walk that back gubner.

You've outed yourself as a teabagging extremest and you're the sole reason Maine is going to go Dem for a long, long time to come.