Maine's Republican Governor Says Out-Of-State Drug Dealers Impregnating 'Young White' Girls

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: 1/7/16 6:29 pm EST - Updated: 1/7/16 6:29 pm EST

BRIDGTON, Maine — Maine's Republican governor says out-of-state drug dealers are impregnating "young white" girls.

Gov. Paul LePage made the remark while talking about the state's heroin epidemic Wednesday. He described out-of-state drug dealers as "guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty" and said "half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave."

LePage is white. He once told the Portland NAACP chapter to kiss his "butt" and said he'd tell President Barack Obama to "go to hell." He's also likened the IRS to the Gestapo and called protesters "idiots."

Moderate Republican and LePage critic Lance Dutson describes the governor's comment about drug dealers as "blatantly racist." He accuses the governor of "fearmongering."

Read more: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/b1ca1b7b359f4434b7644ff92b96e4d8/US--Maine-Governor-White-Girls

[randys1]

1. He is a racist, AMerica is full of them, FULL of them.

And America must be OK with these racists, cuz republicans aka racists, won a bunch of elections last time around
Sure they cheated but still...

[hobbit709]

2. I'd like to see the results of a drug test on him.

And if he's not on anything then he needs to be.

[scipan]

17. Oh that is funny.

He does sound a little off his rocker.

[cab67]

3. wasn't he impeached?

or on the way to being impeached?

I'm a native New Englander, and it offends me that any state in the region would be represented by a bigoted douchebag like this. (It offends me that any US state might be so represented, but I like to think the region from which I came is capable of better.)

[Bradical79]

26. Last I heard the process had been stalled for some reason -nt

[CTyankee]

29. I think I'd take rowland back before I'd take this guy...

and I detested rowland...otoh, I really love malloy and can't understand the malloy haters here in my state (I'll bet they line up pretty well in the Trump camp!).

[marble falls]

4. You know if he ever posted this crap as a member, he have been alerted on. 0 - 7 hide....

It makes me glad to know that.. &quot G)uys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty" and said "half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave.", indeed.

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. No ... The results would probably be 1-6 or 2-5 to hide. eom.

[jaysunb]

5. This is how marijuana prohibition began.

One of the claims was that blacks and Mexicans were using weed to defile white women.

It aint a "dog whistle," it's a bullhorn.

[The Wizard]

24. That was the pretext

The real reason for reefer prohibition was William Randolph Hearst protecting his wood based newsprint monopoly. His only competition came from hemp based newsprint that could be produced at a fraction of the cost of what Hearst was selling. He started a media campaign to vilify hemp and make it a crime to possess. It worked, and millions of lives have been ruined to protect Hearst's fortune. We are a sick culture because of the greed of a few. And nothing seems to change.

[jaysunb]

25. You are absolutely correct !

And let's not forget the liquor industry at the end of THAT prohibition.

[CTyankee]

30. it's only been a few years since we nutmeggers could buy booze and wine on Sundays...

but of course, the liquor lobby was behind that. I wish we could buy wine in the supermarkets but we can't, damnit! Just beer which I don't drink...

[chapdrum]

6. The "governor" is projecting

Blaming others for what he might want to do himself.

So...who votes for the LePages and Walkers, ad nauseum?
A significant # of folk seem to be all right with this mentality.

[Ken Burch]

7. I think LePage is putting himself out there to be Trump's running mate.

This has "Spiro Agnew...The Next Generation" written all over it.

[StevieM]

27. Wow...that's a really good point. I hadn't even thought about Trump picking LePage.

Now that you mention it, he would be the perfect choice for Trump.

[CTyankee]

31. OMG, shoot me now...just the thought of seeing the two of them together makes me sick.

[phantom power]

8. Scary brown men coming for your wimminz! These people never change.

[Archae]

9. I think we have a contender for worse GOP governor than Snyder in Michigan.

And I live in Wisconsin, that has the Koch whore Walker.

[phantom power]

10. I'm not sure, it's hard to top lead-poisoning an entire town just to save some $$$

[Babel_17]

11. NBC News is carrying it now as well

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/maine-gov-out-state-drug-dealers-often-impregnate-young-white-n492501

[0rganism]

12. std American response: "oh shit, are they?"

seriously, this guy got elected AND RE-ELECTED by the people of Maine. not Mississippi. not Alabama. Maine.
i do not think his racism is out of the ordinary for this country any more than his other various laughably insane ideas.

[PeoViejo]

14. 'spud' LePage is just having erotic dreams.

..another big man with a little Dick.

[Tab]

15. Now he's claiming that he only said "white women"

because there were no black women left in Maine.

[Initech]

16. Stay classy, Paul.

[itcfish]

18. What's the Problem?

the local drug dealer are shooting blanks? What an idiot!

[houston16revival]

19. Sadly

he got reelected because ... why, exactly?

Was it he hits the same nativist themes as Mr. Trump?

His racism is taken as 'normal' in white rural America?

Did voters of French ancestry give him the extra 2% he needed?

I never can understand how LePage is in office.

[Zambero]

20. Just as preposterous...

LePage might have alleged that those young impregnated white girls were directly responsible for the heroin epidemic, having deliberately charmed bad guys into Maine from other states. As ridiculous as such an accusation might have been, it would have implicated whites and not blacks as the root of Maine's problems. But, LePage being LePage, chose rhetoric that better suited his own predetermined scapegoating scenario.

[liberalnarb]

21. He had quite the trumpsm there

[IronLionZion]

22. Who does he think is buying the drugs?

It's not like strange people are coming into his state to give away free drugs, or even to force it onto his people. Surely someone is buying them.

And are the young white girls consenting to the interracial sex romps? Is his state restricting access to condoms and birth control?

[elljay]

23. Size Counts

You know what it is - the nagging fear that white male racists have that black men are more endowed than they are and that white women will not be able to resist. It's a two-fer: insult African-Americans as being uncivilized criminals and insult women by believing they just can't control themselves around a large penis and therefore must be protected by their white male saviors. I believe I've read all this before, in history books. Welcome, Governor, to the 16th century.

[jmowreader]

28. So that's who LePage's father is! Who knew?