Unlimited Maine/LePage Hilarity Thread

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Interesting...  Fox news seems to have screwed up the article:

AUGUSTA, Maine –  With Mitt Romney's nomination all but decided, Ron Paul supporters wrested control of the Maine Republican Convention and elected a majority slate supporting the Texas congressman to the GOP national convention, party officials said as the two-day convention neared its end Sunday. The results gave the Texas congressman a late state victory.

The names of 15 at-large delegates from Maine to the GOP nominating convention in Tampa, Fla., were posted Sunday as votes for the other delegation seats remained undecided. Maine is allotted a total of 24 delegates to the national convention.

"It's certainly a significant victory," said Jim Azzola of South Portland, Cumberland County coordinator for Paul. The votes were to become finalized when the convention closes.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/06/paul-supporters-make-mark-at-maine-gop-convention/#ixzz1uHx0KUFA


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/06/paul-supporters-make-mark-at-maine-gop-convention/#ixzz1uHwOBXZk

The AP article:

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — With Mitt Romney's GOP presidential nomination all but decided, Ron Paul supporters took control of the Maine Republican Convention and elected a majority slate supporting the Texas congressman to the GOP national convention, party officials said. The results gave the Texas congressman a late state victory.

In votes leading to the close of the two-day Maine convention, Paul supporters were elected to 21 of the 24 delegate spots from Maine to the GOP national convention in Tampa, Fla. The 24th delegate's seat goes to party Chairman Charles Webster, who has remained uncommitted throughout the process.

Making the Paul takeover complete was the election of Paul supporters to a majority of the state committee seats.

"It's certainly a significant victory," said Jim Azzola of South Portland, Cumberland County coordinator for Paul.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5haZiMmcExIWrZGANMozImDAV_8Dw?docId=a74dccdc67884f6d811bcf62218c7302

Interesting.

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http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2012/07/07/lepage-calls-irs-new-gestapo/1220590

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage is using his weekly radio address to attack the Supreme Court's decision that upheld the president's health care law. He also described the Internal Revenue Service as the "new Gestapo[/size]LePage says the court's decision has "made America less free" and that people have no choice but to buy health insurance or "pay the new Gestapo — the IRS."
The Gestapo was the secret police force of German dictator Adolf Hilter before and during World War II. It was notorious for ruthless and brutal actions against Hilter's political opponents.[/size]The requirement that Americans buy insurance is at the heart of the debate over the Affordable Health Care Act. Critics say it's unconstitutional to require Americans to buy insurance or pay a penalty, but the Supreme Court upheld the penalty as a type of tax.
LePage is continuing to assail the law, saying the government is encouraging people to rely on the government instead of encouraging self-reliance.

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This guy is a neverending train of funnay.

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And he doubled-down on the Gestapo reference the other day campaigning for some Tea Party idiot in Vermont.


This guy is a real winner I gotta say.

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So this happened:

Maine police arrested a heavily armed man driving on the state turnpike who carried clippings about the cinema massacre in Colorado and claimed he attended the new "Batman" film with a loaded gun, authorities said on Monday.

Timothy Courtois, 49, was driving 112 mph on the Maine Turnpike with an AK-47 assault weapon, four handguns and several boxes of ammunition in his car when state police pulled him over about 10 a.m. on Sunday, said Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland.
He told police that he was headed to Derry, N.H., to shoot a former employer, McCausland said in a statement.
Courtois told police he had attended the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight," at a theater in Saco, Maine, on Saturday night with a loaded gun in his backpack, he said.
Police found clippings in his car about the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., where 12 people were killed and 58 wounded by a gunman at a Friday showing of "The Dark Knight," he said.
At Courtois' home in Biddeford, Maine, police found several additional guns, including a machine gun, and thousands of rounds of ammunition, he said.
Courtois was slated to appear in court on Monday in Springvale District Court on initial charges of speeding and carrying a concealed weapon, McCausland said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48292930/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?__utma=14933801.443538625.1342777706.1343037401.1343085084.10&__utmb=14933801.1.10.1343085084&__utmc=14933801&__utmx=-&__utmz=14933801.1342777706.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)&__utmv=14933801.|8=Earned%20By=msnbc%7Ccover=1^12=Landing%20Content=Mixed=1^13=Landing%20Hostname=www.nbcnews.com=1^30=Visit%20Type%20to%20Content=Earned%20to%20Mixed=1&__utmk=140677810

Oh look, he's from Biddeford. 

And this what they found at his house:

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Typical jagoff. 

Why do you need that many fucking guns?  No.  You need loads and loads of ammunition.

In MY day, nutcases were professional about it.  Great big arsenal?  Fuck that.  ONE Italian rifle, and people are STILL talking about it.

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I'm guessing his brain went all mushy from being too close to the Merck plant. 

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I find this extremely hilarious.  The Republican and Democrats are having an impasse on booze.  The Democrats want to jam through legislation so the bars can open earlier this St. Patrick's Day because it falls on a Sunday this year, which in Maine means they open later.  Meanwhile, LePage is refusing to sign anything until the Democrats pass his emergency legislation to renegotiate the State Liquor contract, so they can lower prices, increase sales, and use those proceeds to pay off debt owed to the hospitals. 


http://www.pressherald.com/news/maine-lepage-Bill-bar-pub-hours-St-Pats-Patricks-alcohol.html.