Post by Logan on Jan 10, 2016 7:35:22 GMT -6
PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- An article published on GQ.com Friday attempts to discuss the pros and cons for keeping what writer Drew Magary calls the "most disturbing state in the United States."
It was published shortly after Governor Paul LePage held a news conference to discuss the controversial remarks he made at a town hall meeting in Bridgton Wednesday night.
While discussing Maine's drug crisis, LePage said, "These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty … these types of guys … they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home. 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."
Magary said he attended college in Maine, and can attest that "it is a legitimate state and that people live in it voluntarily."
Continue reading at www.wcsh6.com/story/news/local/2016/01/09/78561424/
It was published shortly after Governor Paul LePage held a news conference to discuss the controversial remarks he made at a town hall meeting in Bridgton Wednesday night.
While discussing Maine's drug crisis, LePage said, "These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty … these types of guys … they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home. 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."
Magary said he attended college in Maine, and can attest that "it is a legitimate state and that people live in it voluntarily."
Continue reading at www.wcsh6.com/story/news/local/2016/01/09/78561424/