Tuesday, August 13, 2013

THE PAGE OF NEWS BITES - infinite boobs:


 "The Page of News Bites" - infinite boobs
1. Election 2010: Maine Governor. Paul LePage (R). wins with 39% of the vote.
2. In what was dubbed "an open conversation with Colby students and Central Maine residents,"
    only heavily vetted questions most palatable to LePage were ever asked.
3. He had a rough start to his administration, with one distraction after another making Mainiacs shake their                        heads and wonder...
4. On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr., Day, Maine's governor Paul LePage told a local television station that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People can "kiss my butt."
5. Governor Paul LePage's answer to a question last week has prompted last minute claims that he is endorsing both sides...
6. Two polls: one shows him surging in popularity. The other? Not so much.
7. Paul LePage ran away from home at age 11 to escape an abusive father.
8. Paul LePage has now proposed mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients.
9. 29% of Maine’s total population is on some form of welfare.  Was LePage on some form of welfare at 11yo?
10. Governor Paul LePage wants to cut in half Maine's reliance on oil for heating homes....
11. Gov. Paul LePage wants education leaders to pressure lawmakers to pass his cuts to the Department of     Health and Human Services’ budget. If they don’t, he said last week, he’ll cut education budgets.
12. Paul LePage says Maine's teachers are not doing enough...
13. Comments from the governor are that some Mainiacs are staying on unemployment because the benefits are good.
14. LePage said some industries are bringing in workers from Jamaica for jobs that Mainiacs could fill, but don't: opting to stay on public assistance.
15. Maine’s largest state workers union has filed a formal complaint against Gov. Paul LePage and his administration for allegedly negotiating a new contract in bad faith.
16. The governor’s spokeswoman called the complaint "a 21-page press release filled with inaccuracies."
17. He has pledged to back right-to-work legislation that union officials have said would cripple them.
18. Gov. Paul LePage ordered the removal of a 36-foot mural depicting Maine's labor history from the lobby of the Department of Labor.
19. Paul LePage and his allies eliminated same-day voter registration in Maine.
20. On election day, voters chose by a 61-39% margin to restore same-day registration.
21. The Boston Globe has reported that in 2010, Maine registered 60,000 new voters on election day and there
were no proven claims of voter fraud.
22. Paul LePage has pledged to continue the fight to restrict voting rights.
23. The governor pledged to stay out of the casino campaigns.
24. Following the casino's rejection on Tuesday's statewide ballot, some in the former mill city feel betrayed by their native son, Gov. Paul LePage.
25. Where does LePage get these crazy ideas?

26. Paul LePage pledged his support for an all-out effort to deal with the problem.
27. Paul LePage merits praise for acknowledging the problem and pledging his support for corrective action and called his governorship "A cheap shot to Maine people...."

"Probably some spoiled, little brat who lives in Portland and is just lucky that his granddaddy 

was born before him." ~Gov. LePage on 560 WGAN morning show one to two years ago?

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