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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLePage goes further with gestapo comment
By Steve Mistler smistler@pressherald.com
Staff Writer
Gov. Paul LePage today attempted to clarify his recent comment comparing the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, during a fundraiser in Vermont. However, the governor may have reignited a controversy that's made national headlines.
During an interview with a reporter from the Burlington weekly Seven Days, LePage said that the IRS wasn't as bad as the Gestapo, the Nazi police force that imprisoned and murdered millions of Jews during World War II, but that the agency was headed in that direction.
"What I am trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and, frankly, I would never want to see that repeated," LePage said. "Maybe the IRS is not quite as bad yet."
Seven Days reporter Paul Heintz asked, "But they're headed in that direction?"
LePage responded, "They're headed in that direction."
Heintz then asked LePage if he knew what the Gestapo did during World War II. LePage said, "Yeah, they killed a lot of people." Heintz asked if he thought the IRS was going to kill a lot of people.
"Yeah," LePage said.
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http://www.kjonline.com/news/LePage-repeats-and-elaborates-Gestapo-comment-at-Vermont-fundraiser.html
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LePage goes further with gestapo comment (Original Post)
cali
Jul 2012
OP
Simple. The vote was split by the Dems and a left of center Independent. We have plain old
GreenPartyVoter
Jul 2012
#8
sinkingfeeling
(51,436 posts)1. I think Gov. LePage could be officially declared insane.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)2. I agree....
...they maybe aggressive in collecting back-taxes, but I haven't heard that they've started to murder and torture people....yet
DCKit
(18,541 posts)7. There aren't enough asylums to hold all the insane (R)s in office right now. nt
MineralMan
(146,254 posts)3. It's the GOP way. It's like a roulette system.
When you're losing, double down. It doesn't work in roulette, and it won't work in this election.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)4. why in the hell is the accidental, teabagger nutcase, Gov 38% of Maine
fundraising in usually sane Vermont?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)5. Are you fucking kidding me?
Paying taxes is comparable to the Holocaust?
I... I got nothin'. Just... fucking what the fuck...
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)6. How did a sensible state like Maine ever
elect such a drooling imbecile?
This klown should be led to a quiet padded room where he can twiddle his toes and play with his food all day long.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)8. Simple. The vote was split by the Dems and a left of center Independent. We have plain old
plurality voting, so LePage got the Blaine House. *sigh*