LePage denies he discussed ‘executing’ Maine Democratic leaders

[NWHarkness]

Source: Bangor Daily News

BANGOR, Maine — In two calls Monday evening to the Bangor Daily News, Gov. Paul LePage vehemently disputed assertions made by a liberal blogger in a forthcoming book that LePage made references in 2013 to executing Maine’s speaker of the House and Senate president.

“I was never in the room where ‘execute’ was used,” the governor said in a phone call to the BDN managing editor.

“It never happened,” he said later in the call. “We did not discuss execution, arrest or hanging.”

Mike Tipping, communications director for the Maine People’s Alliance, has written a book about LePage titled “As Maine Went.” He has launched an online fundraising campaign to pay for the book, which has yet to be published.

Read more: http://bangordailynews.com/2014/06/30/politics/state-house/lepage-denies-he-discussed-executing-maine-democratic-leaders/

[rpannier]

1. I will have to donate to the man's book

A few dollars well spent

[greyl]

12. For sale here, July 4th:

As Maine Went: Governor Paul LePage and the Tea Party Takeover of Maine - Amazon

edit: And looks like pre-order is available now.

Reviews:

''Here is political reporting and analysis at its best without shrieks and full of facts to back up what the author is saying. The first chapter is a barn burner that gripped me from the moment I started reading. Mike Tipping dispassionately but devastatingly dissects the career and antics of Maine's arch right wing Governor Paul LePage.'' --Neil Rolde, Maine author, historian, and politician

'The LePage Administration is not going to run down to the Appropriations Committee because Mike Tipping wrote a column.'' --Spokesperson Dan Demeritt, explaining Governor LePage s decision in March 2011 to exempt his own pension from his cuts to the pensions of all other state employees

''Hats off to Mike Tipping for stepping back from the daily barrage of headlines and diving deeply into the political phenomenon that is Governor Paul LePage. From health care and education to buffaloes and black flies, As Maine Went paints an informative and often troubling portrait of one of Maine s most unforgettable public figures.'' --Bill Nemitz, columnist, Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram

[ret5hd]

2. However, the phrases "offing", "cement shoes", "sleeping with the fishes" MAY...and I only mean MAY

...have come up...at the most once or twice. Maybe three times, but that is all.

[freshwest]

15. Ha! Thanks for my evening snicker.

[Cha]

3. Did he or Didn't he? ..that is the question.

[Botany]

6. “I was never in the room where ‘execute’ was used,”

He is giving himself an "out."

Cha

[Cha]

8. Yeah, that LePage would never say something viciously

stupid like that. never. ever. right.

Botany!

[Gormy Cuss]

9. He's a POS.

It's so obvious that he's sliming around the exact terms/phrases used.

[Botany]

11. I'm from Ohio and I have been around the block a few times and just his turn of the phrase

“I was never in the room where ‘execute’ was used,” does not pass the smell test to me.




@ one time Maine had a wonderful and smart senator, Margaret Chase Smith and she
was a republican too*. This what the GOP gets from letting Fox, Rush, and the Koch
Brothers run their party because in that whack a doodle world President Obama isn't
a real President or American and or working with the the other side to help the American
people should never be done.


* at one time we had good republicans but those days are over.

[Gormy Cuss]

16. IMHO LePage is a reflexive liar.

He also is a heartless bastard who refused to expand Medicaid in a state with a lot of low income people without health insurance.

[47of74]

4. When will these GOP bleepsticks learn...

Nothing good can come of giving so much as the time of day to these clowns.

[bluedigger]

5. Weasel talk.

When discussing Senate President Justin Alfond and House Speaker Mark Eves, both Democrats, McCarthy apparently claimed that they were guilty of “high treason” and noted that the penalty for treason hadn’t changed in a hundred years.

“I never said it, but the governor said it. I never opened my mouth and said the word,” explained McCarthy. “The governor looked at us and looked at his buddy and said, ‘They’re talking about hanging them.’” (The “buddy” was apparently a member of LePage’s legal staff.)

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/lepage-maine-sovereign-citizen

[RBInMaine]

7. LePage met with these domestic terrorists EIGHT times. Disgusting !

He met with these "Sovereign Citizens" eight times. That he would even think of lending that much credence to ANYTHING they had to say is just DISGUSTING.

This will not play well at all here in Maine. I think he is TOAST at the polls come November.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. He's toast if Cutler withdraws.

At the moment Michaud is polling only a slight lead.

[RBInMaine]

13. I think he's toast even if Cutler doesn't opt out. People will vote strategically.

[bullwinkle428]

14. I guess I missed the memo where America decided

it needed its own Rob Ford.