The exchange between Joanne Twomey and Gov. Paul LePage starts about the 2:00 mark. LePage; Twomey should not be charged. First Amendment protects her, I’m happy to have the debate. #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/0WEfZiqBiM — Mario Moretto (@riocarmine) April 3, 2015 “It wasn’t the woman (who was out of control). It was the Maine People’s Alliance in […]
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Video: Former Biddeford mayor throws a jar of Vaseline near Governor LePage
According to social media reports, Twomey “threw a jar of Vaseline” toward the governor. Twomey reportedly was escorted from the meeting by security. Video from the event shows Twomey throwing something on the stage, which did not strike LePage, as she was escorted from the building. The item was quickly retrieved by what appeared to be […]
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Maine’s political gaffes fetch mea culpas in 2013
AUGUSTA — They put on clown noses in committee, lambasted each other with crude insults on television and spent time thinking with or about their “man brains.” Maine politicians, both Democratic and Republican, were anything but boring in the things they did or said in 2013. And it wasn’t even an election year for most […]
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LePage’s tough talk could hurt 2014 bid
AUGUSTA (AP) — Sitting in an F-35 cockpit simulator, Gov. Paul LePage joked during a photo op this month that he wanted to bomb a Portland newspaper for its reporting on his administration. It turns out it’s LePage who has a target on his back as perhaps one of the nation’s most vulnerable Republican governors […]
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Anti-gay activists endorse LePage Vaseline remark
AUGUSTA — Two longtime gay marriage opponents commended Gov. Paul LePage Wednesday for speaking up against sodomy with a crude reference to Vaseline that garnered the chief executive national attention. LePage’s administration quickly distanced him from Michael Heath, best known as the former executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine, and Paul Madore, […]
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Gay marriage opponents praise LePage for Vaseline comment
LePage’s administration quickly distanced him from Michael Heath, best known as the former executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine, and Paul Madore, director of the Maine Grassroots Coalition. The two said at a news conference at the State House on Wednesday that when LePage said Democratic Sen. Troy Jackson claimed “to be […]