Unlimited Maine/LePage Hilarity Thread

[Freeky]

You fuckers better vote for Trump, or there's gonna be hell toupee. 

[Telarus]

 

[AFK]

You fuckers better vote for Trump, or there's gonna be hell toupee. 

That's fucking brilliant right there!

[AFK]

http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011/05/09/politics/lawmakers-spent-more-time-on-whoopie-pie-bill-than-health-insurance-changes/

Lawmakers spent more time on whoopie pie bill than health insurance changes

Nuggets from the notebook while considering the alacrity of insurance reform versus the dense, sticky slog of legislating whoopie pies ...

Lawmakers have made a lot of arguable statements during the furor over Republicans' fast-tracked attempt to overhaul the state's health insurance laws.

But one remark made during the House debate last Thursday remains uncontested.

Rep. Mike Bryant, D-Windham, told lawmakers that the Legislature had spent more time reviewing legislation that designated the whoopie pie as the state's official treat than it did vetting the GOP proposal that makes sweeping changes to health insurance.

Bryant is correct, at least in terms of time elapsed during the public process.

It took 52 days for LD 71, the whoopie pie bill, to go from public hearing to the first House vote.

It took eight days for LD 1333, the insurance bill, to travel the same distance.

It took 65 days from the hearing for LD 71 to become law. Ninety-eight days elapsed from the time the bill was assigned to committee to becoming law. The 98 days doesn't include the time it took to draft the bill.



Goddamn this is becoming one cuckoo state. 

[AFK]

http://www.sunjournal.com/approved/story/1029071

LePage is such a "monkey see monkey do" scumbag.  Because he wants to hang out with the cool kids in the DC GOP crowd, he is now proposing to eliminate funding to MPBN.  (Basically the local NPR/PBS "affiliate").  He says it's just about balancing the budget but I think it's probably more to do with their reporting on his antics. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

NPR/PBS are not beholden to commercial interests to the same degree that the "news" channels are, so obviously everyone in government wants them dead, especially the republicans.

[AFK]

http://www.pressherald.com/news/State-rep-threatens-to-shoot-innocent-bystander.html

State rep threatens to shoot "innocent bystander"

WATERVILLE — A state representative from Garland was arrested Saturday morning for pointing a handgun at a man at point-blank range in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot.

Republican Frederick Ladd Wintle, 58, faces charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and carrying a concealed weapon for pulling a gun on Morning Sentinel photographer Michael Seamans, of Sidney.

In what police termed a "bizarre" series of events, Wintle allegedly started talking to Seamans about the infant that died this week at Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter on Ticonic Street and said he was looking for the mother's drug dealer.

He then pulled a .22-caliber handgun out of his pants' waistband and waved it at Seamans in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot, located on Kennedy Memorial Drive.

Seamans was "an innocent bystander," said Sgt. Alan Main with the Waterville Police Department. "He certainly did nothing wrong and certainly did his best to try to diffuse the potential harm to himself."

Wintle represents Athens, Charleston, Dexter, Garland, Harmony and Ripley and is on the Legislature's Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development Committee.

[Freeky]

I can't tell if or

[East Coast Hustle]

GODDAMMUH, YOU'D'A THUNK A MAINAH WOULDAH KNOWN BETTAH. CAN'T DO NO MUTHAFRIGGIN' DAMAGE WITH A .22, SON.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What the fuuuuuck

[Phox]

What the fuuuuuck

This. 

[AFK]

Just a little something to think about the next time you are in Maine.  It may seem like a quaint, quiet little State, but on a per capita basis, it probably is the most heavily armed state in the nation.  There's also lots of alcoholics, people on oxycontin.....

Basically, you just want to be careful when dealing with a random stranger in Maine.  You just don't know what will happen. 

[East Coast Hustle]

It really depends. If you come off like some typical snotty tourist asshole, you just might find yourself deliverance'd, but mostly the most fucked-up backwards hillbilly in Maine is still better people than 95% of the rest of the US.

It's also worth pointing out that although it's true that it's the state with the most firearms per capita, most of those are hunting rifles. It's not as though there are kids with gats on the corners.

Well, except maybe across the river from RWHN, who IIRC is spitting distance from Maine's "ghetto".

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Just a little something to think about the next time you are in Maine.  It may seem like a quaint, quiet little State, but on a per capita basis, it probably is the most heavily armed state in the nation. 

I'm gonna have to dispute that.

[East Coast Hustle]

In terms of registered firearms owned per capita, Maine is #1.

Keep in mind that there are only 1.2 million people in the entire state, and that almost all of them hunt.

It may not be anywhere near the top of the list in terms of registered handguns per capita, though.