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WGAN: Limbaugh show stays on the air
The radio station says it will continue airing Rush Limbaugh despite a petition demanding that his program be dropped.

By Leslie Bridgers/Portland Press-Herald

SOUTH PORTLAND - The controversy over “The Rush Limbaugh Show” continued in the Portland area Thursday as protesters delivered a petition to WGAN-AM, a lawsuit was filed against a local marketing firm and more companies asked the radio station not to air their ads during Limbaugh’s program.

On Thursday morning, Annie Finch of Falmouth led about a dozen women and a couple of men into the South Portland office of the Portland Radio Group to deliver a thick white binder with the names of 5,700 people who signed a petition demanding that the company stop airing Limbaugh’s show on WGAN, one of its eight stations.

Finch, who started the petition on Facebook last weekend, said it was “fitting” to deliver it on Thursday, International Women’s Day, considering the nature of the protest.

“Rush Limbaugh’s anti-woman rants have gone so far that it is unacceptable for WGAN to profit from filling Maine’s airwaves with his hate and misogyny,” the petition read.

At least two stations that aired the Limbaugh show — WBEC in Pittsfield, Mass., and KPUA in Hilo, Hawaii — have dropped the program since Limbaugh called Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and “prostitute” last week because she testified to federal legislators in support of health care coverage for contraception.

Portland Radio Group’s president and general manager, Cary Pahigian, said the petition would not affect his previously stated position that WGAN has no intention of dropping the show.

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