Last week LePage left Gattine a foul-mouthed voicemail message and told reporters he wished he could go back in time and challenge Gattine to a duel and point a gun “right between his eyes”.
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GOP Chairman Rick Bennett said Wednesday that residents are “understandably outraged” by comments recently made by LePage.
“I will not resign, “said LePage in a press conference”. Drew Gattine repeated his call that LePage resign, a demand that has been taken up by a growing group of state Democrats as the governor’s latest controversy has deepened over the last week, according to a Portland Press Herald video of the event.
LePage said he was angry because state Rep. Amid political pressure and calls for his resignation, Republican Gov. Paul LePage on Tuesday suggested that he might be considering stepping aside but seemed to reject the idea entirely hours later in a tweet, saying, “The reports of my political demise are greatly exaggerated”.
“When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I’d like him to come up here, because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825”, LePage said.
The famously combative two-term governor apologized for the second day straight to the people of ME and to state Representative Drew Gattine after calling the Democrat a “little son-of-a-bitch, socialist cocksucker” in a voicemail message that has been widely circulated. In response, Gattine has referred to those remarks as racially charged and unhelpful. He said he keeps photos of drug dealers arrested in the state in a binder and it shows 90 percent of them “are black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Connecticut; the Bronx; and Brooklyn”. “Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we have to deal with down the road.”; Malloy: “I think that the governor has found a new way to demonstrate his ignorance of yet another issue”.
LePage is referring to the drug traffickers whom he mentioned at a town hall meeting last week which spurred the race-related comments that triggered the media attention. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. Because of the volume of reader comments, we can not review individual moderation decisions with readers. A few things we won’t tolerate: personal attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and letters followed by dashes), commercial promotion, impersonations, incoherence, proselytizing and SHOUTING.
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