Post by Logan on Feb 10, 2016 3:37:47 GMT -6
LePage says he had to scream about ‘black dealers’ to get lawmakers to act on drug crisis
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage said Tuesday that “I had to go screaming at the top of my lungs about black dealers” and make other “outrageous comments” to force the Legislature to take the state’s drug crisis seriously.
LePage’s “black dealers” comment contradicts his earlier assertions that the media and his political opponents – not he – inserted race into the drug debate by misinterpreting his statement that out-of-state dealers often “impregnate a young white girl” in Maine.
The governor made the latest comments during a Tuesday morning radio show on WVOM-FM while expressing frustrations with the Maine Legislature. LePage once again suggested the Legislature has moved too slowly to address the rise in heroin addiction and overdose deaths.
“We got a few more drug agents, but what did I have to do? I had to go screaming at the top of my lungs about black dealers coming in and doing the things that they are doing to our state,” LePage told talk show hosts Ric Tyler and George Hale. “I had to scream about guillotines and those types of things before they were embarrassed into giving us a handful of DEA agents. So this is what it takes with this 127th (Legislature). It takes outrageous comments and outrageous actions to get them off the dime. They just simply don’t move.”
Read more: www.pressherald.com/2016/02/09/lepage-says-he-had-to-scream-about-black-dealers-to-get-lawmakers-attention/
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage said Tuesday that “I had to go screaming at the top of my lungs about black dealers” and make other “outrageous comments” to force the Legislature to take the state’s drug crisis seriously.
LePage’s “black dealers” comment contradicts his earlier assertions that the media and his political opponents – not he – inserted race into the drug debate by misinterpreting his statement that out-of-state dealers often “impregnate a young white girl” in Maine.
The governor made the latest comments during a Tuesday morning radio show on WVOM-FM while expressing frustrations with the Maine Legislature. LePage once again suggested the Legislature has moved too slowly to address the rise in heroin addiction and overdose deaths.
“We got a few more drug agents, but what did I have to do? I had to go screaming at the top of my lungs about black dealers coming in and doing the things that they are doing to our state,” LePage told talk show hosts Ric Tyler and George Hale. “I had to scream about guillotines and those types of things before they were embarrassed into giving us a handful of DEA agents. So this is what it takes with this 127th (Legislature). It takes outrageous comments and outrageous actions to get them off the dime. They just simply don’t move.”
Read more: www.pressherald.com/2016/02/09/lepage-says-he-had-to-scream-about-black-dealers-to-get-lawmakers-attention/