Paul LePage, the 38% governor of Maine, product of the idiotic laws adopted by flaky Maine liberals in the 1970s to loosen ballot access for never-will-ever be elected flakes and, later, Greens, will be gone from the Blaine House. He told the state that we would miss him when he's gone. Well, I'd love to see him move to Florida to escape Maine's income tax, as he announced he would and stay there. Either there or - after he's investigated - in prison.
On his way out the door, the lying hypocrite is doing things like pardoning his supporters who committed crimes for which LePage had advocated the death penalty and, after he was convicted, he illegally owned and carried guns.
Pierce was among a core group of House Republicans who were loyal to LePage during his two terms as governor.
LePage’s final day in office is Wednesday. He will be succeeded by Democratic Gov.-elect Janet Mills.
Pierce was convicted of felony-level drug trafficking in 1983 after selling cocaine and marijuana to an undercover police officer. He has other misdemeanor offenses for the years between 1980 and 2006.
State and federal laws bar convicted felons from possessing firearms. It is also unlawful for a felon to obtain a firearms hunting permit, and applications expressly ask people seeking licenses to state whether they have been convicted of a crime.
LePage has taken a tough approach on drug traffickers in particular. He supported tougher sentences for drug traffickers and pushed for more law enforcement resources to combat the Maine opioid crisis.
His position has caused controversy, first for joking during a radio interview that convicted traffickers should be executed by the guillotine, and later for falsely suggesting that the majority of people arrested for drug trafficking are black or Hispanic.
Pierce says he has long since moved on from his checkered past. He told Maine Public Radio that he was upset when Democrats publicized his criminal record during the campaign.
Pierce lost his re-election bid to Allison Hepler. He said he planned to release a full statement about his pardon sometime on New Year’s Day.
Which can stand as a typical example of the unequal justice under law that always comes with Republican fascism.
Janet Mills, who will be our first Woman as governor, is sworn in at six tonight. One of her goals is to change the stupidly written Maine Constitution to have ranked-choice voting in all Maine elections, which will be necessary to protect us from having the last choice of a majority of voters as governor. The stupidity of the old system under which someone who couldn't gain the support of a majority of voters was always obvious, that it has lasted this long proves that habit can overcome reason almost every time.
The Republican Party in Maine deserves to die for what it did to us in imposing Paul LePage, the filth that stained my state for eight years. So does the old system that let fewer voters decide who was going to hold office.
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