
Meet Maine’s Governor sworn in January 2011.
In case you haven’t heard about this guy before, his name will stick in your mind!
Maine Governor, Paul LePage is making New Jersey’s Chris Christie look like an enabler. He isn’t afraid to say what he thinks. Judging by the comments, every time he opens his mouth, his popularity goes up. He brought down the house at his inauguration when he shook his fist toward the media box and said,
You’re on notice! I’ve inherited a financially troubled State to run. Observe . . . cover what we do . . . but don’t whine if I don’t waste time responding to your every whim just for your amusement.
During his campaign for Governor, he was talking to commercial fishermen who are struggling because of federal fisheries rules. They complained that Obama brought his family to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park for a long Labor Day holiday and found time to meet with union leaders, but wouldn’t talk to the fishermen. LePage replied,
I’d tell him to go to hell and get out of my State.
The ‘Lame Stream Media’ crucified LePage, but he jumped 6 points in the pre-election poll and word on the street was very positive. The Martin Luther King incident was a political sandbag, which brought him National exposure. The NAACP specifically asked LePage to spend MLK Day visiting black inmates at the Maine State Prison. He told them that he would meet with ALL inmates, regardless of race, if he were to visit the prison. The NAACP balked and then put out a news release, ‘claiming falsely’, that he refused to participate in any MLK events. He read it in the paper for the first time the next morning while being driven to an event and went ballistic because none of the reporters had called him for comment before running the NAACP release. He arrived at that event and said in front of a TV camera,
If they want to play the race card on me they can kiss my ass!,
and he reminded them that he has an adopted black son from Jamaica and that he attended the local MLK Breakfast every year that he was mayor of Waterville. (He started his morning there on MLK Day.) He then stated that there’s a right way and a wrong way to meet with the Governor, and he put all special interests on notice that press releases, media leaks, and all demonstrations would prove to be the wrong way. He said any other group, which acted like the NAACP could expect to be at the bottom of the Governor’s priority list! He then did the following, and judging from local radio talk show callers, his popularity increased even more.
The State employees union complained because he waited until 3 P.M. before closing State offices and facilities and sending non-emergency personnel home during the last blizzard. The prior Governor would often close offices for the day with just a forecast before the first flakes. (Each time the State closes for snow, it costs the taxpayers about $1 million in wages for no work in return.)
LePage was CEO of the Marden’s chain of discount family bargain retail stores before election as governor. He noted that State employees getting off work early could still find lots of retail stores open to shop. So, he put the State employees on notice by announcing:
If Marden’s is open, Maine is open!
He told State employees:
We live in Maine in the winter, for heavens’ sake, and should know how to drive in it. Otherwise, apply for a State job in Florida!
Governor LePage symbolizes what America needs! Refreshing politicians who aren’t self-serving and who exhibit common sense.
THE LAW IS THE LAW!
I really love this one!! This is one of the better e-mails I have received in a long time! I hope this makes its way around the USA several times over!!!!!
HERE IS WHAT Governor LaPage said,
THE LAW IS THE LAW!
So ‘if’ the U.S. government determines that it is against the law for the words ‘under God’ to be on our money, then, so be it.
And ‘if’ that same government decides that the ‘Ten Commandments’ are not to be used in or on a government installation, then, so be it.
I say, ‘so be it,’ because I would like to be a law-abiding U.S. citizen.
I say, ‘so be it,’ because I would like to think that smarter people than I are in positions to make good decisions. I would like to think that those people have the American publics’ best interests at heart.
BUT,
he said,
YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I’D LIKE TO SEE?
Since we can’t pray to God, can’t Trust in God and cannot post His Commandments in Government buildings, then I don’t believe Government (Federal, State and Local) and its employees should participate in Easter and Christmas celebrations which honor the God that our government is eliminating from many facets of American life.
I’d like my mail delivered on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving and Easter. After all, it’s just another day.
I’d like the U.S. Supreme Court to be in session on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving and Easter as well as Sundays. After all, it’s just another day.
I’d like the Senate and the House of Representatives to not have to worry about getting home for the ‘Christmas Break.’ After all it’s just another day. I’m thinking a lot of my taxpayer dollars could be saved, if all government offices and services would work on Christmas, Good Friday and Easter. It shouldn’t cost any overtime since those would be just like any other day of the week to a government that is trying to be ‘politically correct.’ In fact…. I think our government should work on Sundays (initially set aside for worshipping God . . .) because, after all, our government says that it should be just another day . . .
What do you all think????
If this idea gets to enough people, maybe our elected officials will stop giving in to the ‘minority opinions’ and begin, once again, to represent the ‘majority’ of ALL of the American people!!
SO BE IT………..
Please, Dear Lord, Give us the help needed to keep you in our country! ‘Amen’ and ‘Amen’!
If this gets around the country a few times, perhaps we will see a better day!!!
I am not a religious person (though i am spiritual) particularly however I do believe in this article!!!!
Well said well played. I’d like to add the Sabbath and Chanukah and a few others. Lol
You can’t have it both ways.
Good article !great article!
A fellow blogger but you’ve beat the pants off of me!
Robin~ a simple bird.
– Wondering what ill be getting in the mail on Thanksgiving. …seeing as they’ve forced store workers with being fired if they don’t work the holiday.
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Many of us folks in the Silent Majority should be cheering and thanking you for this post. Lets go viral.
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