Vice News has a first-person story from the man who prompted Gov. Paul LePage’s remarks on drug dealers last week — Andrew Ritchie, a black comedian from Brooklyn.

Ritchie was in Maine staying with his friend and fellow comedian Jamie Roux, who often attends LePage’s town halls to criticize LePage. On Wednesday, they found themselves in North Berwick. Ritchie said he got onto the question list for LePage’s town hall by lying and saying that he was from Lebanon, Maine.

“Given the rhetoric you put out there about people of color in Maine, calling them drug dealers, etc, how can I bring a company here given the toxic environment you create?” he asked.

That’s when LePage made the remarks referencing a binder that he keeps with pictures of drug traffickers, saying “90-plus percent” of them are “black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Connecticut, the Bronx and Brooklyn.” He was criticized the next day by Rep. Drew Gattine, D-Westbrook, which led to LePage’s profane voicemail.