I live in Maine and I think Gov. Paul LePage is a GREAT governor.
I voted for him in 2010 and 2014.
He is one of something like 16 children. His father was abusive. One day, after hitting a young Paul LePage, his “father” gave him a half dollar, dropped him off at a local hospital and said, “Tell them you fell down a flight of stairs.”
Young Paul lived on the streets for a while, shining shoes and doing odd jobs. Another family took him in, and eventually Paul LePage went to college, became the CEO of Marden’s, a chain store in Maine, and mayor of the city of Waterville.
He doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and is very knowledgeable about business.
LePage has hinted about running for the U.S. Senate in 2018.
Maine, a state I love deeply, is an Appalachian backwater that anyone with brains or ambition has left by age 18.
The state is suffering terribly with an influx of impoverished Somali refugees recently.
They have been a tremendous drag on state and local resources and contributed greatly to social tensions.
In their defense, however, the presence of illiterate Somalis has had the effect in Maine of raising the local average IQ markedly.