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Around 200 people in Westbrook gathered Wednesday night to call for a return to decency in ME politics. Drew Gattine (gah-TEEN’). Even though the report turned out to be false, LePage called Gattine and left a threatening voicemail last week where he called him a “c*cksucker” and a “son of a b*itch”.
LePage initially said his outburst was justified because Gattine called him a racist – something Gattine has denied. Many residents opposed the idea of LePage holding such an event in the city after recently bashing Gattine. LePage sent the fiery message after apparently being incorrectly told that Gattine had said the governor was racist.
In the voicemail released by the Maine State House Majority Office last week, LePage could be heard saying that he wanted Gattine to “prove” that he was a racist. LePage was elected in 2010. LePage says he hopes he can be forgiven and plans on remaining in the Blaine House to finish his term, working to fight the drug epidemic in the state.
Asked on Wednesday whether he would change any of his behavior moving forward, the governor said, “I will no longer speak to the press ever again after today”.
Speaking to reporters, LePage vowed that he would that he would never again speak to the media, whom he accused of stoking controversies.
“Maybe in my mind it is semantics, but in his mind, after talking to him it was clear that there was a real difference”, LePage said at a press conference Wednesday. “They are very different at the end of the day”, said Michael Franz, chairman of the government and legal studies department at Maine’s Bowdoin College.
“I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you c–sucker”. He said “any one of us” would be unemployed after leaving such a voicemail and added he asked LePage to seek professional counseling. Convincing voters to be afraid of people who are different has always been a staple of American politics, and politicians such as LePage and Donald Trump have taken Republican politics of the last five decades to their logical, uncoded extreme. LePage has been in the national spotlight for making repeated statements blaming out-of-state black and Hispanic people for the heroin trade in Maine.
Democrats announced today they will meet with Republican leaders today to discuss the “removal or resignation” of the governor. LePage also told reporters he wished it were 1825 so he could shoot Gattine in a duel.
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LePage has blamed liberals for inserting race into his comments and distorting his meaning.
