The Paul LePage Show came to Boston yesterday – and the Maine governor certainly didn’t disappoint. In town for a conference with other New England governors and Canadian premiers, LePage et gang were supposed to be talking about energy policy and other weighty issues of importance to the region – and they did talk about those items. But the Republican governor ultimately, inevitably, stole the show yesterday, doubling down on his earlier remarks that black and Hispanic people “from Lowell and Lawrence” are partly responsible for the heroin and fentanyl in his state, prompting one Lawrence official to call for a Maine boycott until LePage apologizes, the Herald’s Matt Stout and Lindsay Kalter report.
LePage didn’t just double down, he double doubled-down, sort of like a double-dog-dare you. “What I said was this: Meth lab arrests are white. They’re Mainers. The heroin-fentanyl arrests are not white people. They’re Hispanic and they’re black and they’re from Lowell and Lawrence, Massachusetts; Waterbury, Connecticut; the Bronx and Brooklyn,” LePage told the State House News Service’s Matt Murphy. “I didn’t make up the rules. That’s how it turns out. But that’s a fact. It’s a fact. What do you want, me to lie?”
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy was none too happy about the remarks, while Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker was sent tap dancing with a “more muted response” that didn’t address the charges against Lowell and Lawrence, reports Murphy. Meanwhile, the Globe’s Jim O’Sullivanlooks at the contrasting style of Baker and LePage. And if you haven’t seen it yet, you gotta check out Adrian Walker’s brutal takedown of LePage yesterday, before his latest command performance.
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