ME Gov. LePage makes racially charged comment at Bridgton meeting

[Anti-Bothsidesism]

I want to see Paul LePage and Jeff Sessions have a boxing match over who gets to be Trump's running mate. Loser gets their head shaved by Trump himself.

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[Mr. Reactionary]

I'd love to see him on Jerry Springer.

LePage could bring his black son on.

[DavidB.]

Very stupid remark. Racist as well. But, admittedly, also a bit funny: the "Smoothie, Shifty" part made me lol.

[Joe Republic]

[Free Bird]

Did he say something false? Sometimes the facts are uncomfortable, get over it.

You can just come out and say you're a racist at this point. No one will think any different of you.

It happens. How is pointing out a problem, regardless of race, racist? Do blacks get a free pass from the problem? It certainly made you remember the problem, now didn't it?

[Ebsy]

Did he say something false? Sometimes the facts are uncomfortable, get over it.

You can just come out and say you're a racist at this point. No one will think any different of you.

It happens. How is pointing out a problem, regardless of race, racist? Do blacks get a free pass from the problem? It certainly made you remember the problem, now didn't it?

What's the problem? The nonexistent black drug dealers in Maine that are apparently knocking up white girls? Whew, I'm glad we don't agree on anything, because if we did, I would think I was the dumbest person alive.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Did he say something false? Sometimes the facts are uncomfortable, get over it.

You can just come out and say you're a racist at this point. No one will think any different of you.

It happens. How is pointing out a problem, regardless of race, racist? Do blacks get a free pass from the problem? It certainly made you remember the problem, now didn't it?

What's the problem? The nonexistent black drug dealers in Maine that are apparently knocking up white girls? Whew, I'm glad we don't agree on anything, because if we did, I would think I was the dumbest person alive.

Nobody thinks you are cool or funny, Ebsy. Give it a rest. Or just get out.

[Zioneer]

Did he say something false? Sometimes the facts are uncomfortable, get over it.

You can just come out and say you're a racist at this point. No one will think any different of you.

It happens. How is pointing out a problem, regardless of race, racist? Do blacks get a free pass from the problem? It certainly made you remember the problem, now didn't it?

It's not actually a problem, because the black drug dealers impregnating white Maine girls do not actually exist. Or, if one or two exist, not in a significant enough population.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I'm going to bet over 80% of drug dealers in Maine are white.

They more than likely are, but there are a lot of drug dealers that probably come out of state, I don't really care if there white or black it doesn't matter they are drug dealers.

If you were a successful drug dealer in New York or Connecticut, why would you go out of your way to reach a place with a smaller, more rural population with fewer customers and zero personal connections?  That literally makes no sense whatsoever.  I'll give you a hint: Maine's drug dealers live in Maine.

probably a lot from NH too.

[Landslide Lyndon]

I'm going to bet over 80% of drug dealers in Maine are white.

They more than likely are, but there are a lot of drug dealers that probably come out of state, I don't really care if there white or black it doesn't matter they are drug dealers.

If you were a successful drug dealer in New York or Connecticut, why would you go out of your way to reach a place with a smaller, more rural population with fewer customers and zero personal connections?  That literally makes no sense whatsoever.  I'll give you a hint: Maine's drug dealers live in Maine.

probably a lot from NH too.

A lot of them might be coming from Vermont too. Those Green Mountain State niggas are a shifty lot.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I'm going to bet over 80% of drug dealers in Maine are white.

They more than likely are, but there are a lot of drug dealers that probably come out of state, I don't really care if there white or black it doesn't matter they are drug dealers.

If you were a successful drug dealer in New York or Connecticut, why would you go out of your way to reach a place with a smaller, more rural population with fewer customers and zero personal connections?  That literally makes no sense whatsoever.  I'll give you a hint: Maine's drug dealers live in Maine.

probably a lot from NH too.

A lot of them might be coming from Vermont too. Those Green Mountain State niggas are a shifty lot.

can you just not?

[Ebsy]

Did he say something false? Sometimes the facts are uncomfortable, get over it.

You can just come out and say you're a racist at this point. No one will think any different of you.

It happens. How is pointing out a problem, regardless of race, racist? Do blacks get a free pass from the problem? It certainly made you remember the problem, now didn't it?

What's the problem? The nonexistent black drug dealers in Maine that are apparently knocking up white girls? Whew, I'm glad we don't agree on anything, because if we did, I would think I was the dumbest person alive.

Nobody thinks you are cool or funny, Ebsy. Give it a rest. Or just get out.

Do you have any real dispute with what I said? I mean, I know you're the forum's premiere defender of racists and idiots, but you've really been stooping in the gutter lately.

[Ebowed]

I'm going to bet over 80% of drug dealers in Maine are white.

They more than likely are, but there are a lot of drug dealers that probably come out of state, I don't really care if there white or black it doesn't matter they are drug dealers.

If you were a successful drug dealer in New York or Connecticut, why would you go out of your way to reach a place with a smaller, more rural population with fewer customers and zero personal connections?  That literally makes no sense whatsoever.  I'll give you a hint: Maine's drug dealers live in Maine.

probably a lot from NH too.

Yeah I'll give you that one.

[Zache]

Did he say something false? Sometimes the facts are uncomfortable, get over it.

You can just come out and say you're a racist at this point. No one will think any different of you.

It happens. How is pointing out a problem, regardless of race, racist? Do blacks get a free pass from the problem? It certainly made you remember the problem, now didn't it?

Do you really think there's an epidemic of out-of-state drug dealers impregnating young white women(who apparently lack self-control)? It's so random and unnecessarily racial that I would've thought it would be indefensible, but I obviously expect too much.

[Joe Republic]

Don't forget all those brown-skinned wetbacks jumping the border from New Brunswick and stealing our jobs and doing all the raping.

[Torie]

As someone who lives in an extremely white area that also has a massive meth problem, I can confirm that there are MANY white drug dealers. Plenty of them are racist hicks who would probably vote LePage in fact!

Maybe LePage was referring to out of state white drug dealers impregnating young white women. Hey, anything is possible.

[RI]

If you were a successful drug dealer in New York or Connecticut, why would you go out of your way to reach a place with a smaller, more rural population with fewer customers and zero personal connections?  That literally makes no sense whatsoever.  I'll give you a hint: Maine's drug dealers live in Maine.

Eh, I've read heroin goes for a much higher rate in Maine than in NYC. Supply vs. Demand and all. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some truth to what LePage is saying, though he clearly went a bit off the rails in how he said it.

[Mr. Illini]

Did he say something false? Sometimes the facts are uncomfortable, get over it.

You can just come out and say you're a racist at this point. No one will think any different of you.

It happens. How is pointing out a problem, regardless of race, racist? Do blacks get a free pass from the problem? It certainly made you remember the problem, now didn't it?

I'm eager to hear the numbers behind what percentage of drug dealers are "blacks."

If you don't have facts, then you're just a race-baiter.

Blair is right that it is exactly the same as Reagan's infamous "mother from Chicago." It's invoking race without flat out saying "the blacks" (and therefore avoiding having to back it up with facts).

[SteveRogers]

Did he say something false? Sometimes the facts are uncomfortable, get over it.

You can just come out and say you're a racist at this point. No one will think any different of you.

It happens. How is pointing out a problem, regardless of race, racist? Do blacks get a free pass from the problem? It certainly made you remember the problem, now didn't it?

Um, even if you give him every benefit of the doubt and assume he wasn't racistly imagining all his drug dealers as black, the end of his statement is still explicitly racist. Why is he only concerned about drug dealers impregnating young white girls as opposed to young girls generally? 

[101spotted]

Dominican DTOs are the primary suppliers of South American heroin in Maine. They supply independent dealers who travel from Maine to several Massachusetts cities including Lawrence and Lowell. The MDEA Augusta Task Force reports the pattern of heroin distribution from Massachusetts suppliers to dealers who travel from market areas in Maine remains steady. Heroin dealers from Rockland and Waldoboro, Maine, travel to New Bedford, Massachusetts; dealers from Kennebec County, Maine, travel to Worcester, Massachusetts; and dealers from Bath and Brunswick, Maine, travel to Lawrence, Lowell, and Lynn, Massachusetts.

Dominican DTOs increased their drug trafficking activities in the Northeast during the past decade and have developed sophisticated methods of operation. Most of the heroin distributed by Dominican DTOs is transported to New York City from South America by couriers on commercial airlines. While New York City remains the primary distribution center, Dominican DTOs now use Philadelphia and the Boston area, including Lowell and Lawrence, as secondary wholesale distribution centers. Dominican criminal groups operating at the wholesale or retail levels have been reported throughout New England and, in particular, in the Maine cities of Auburn, Augusta, Bangor, Houlton, Lewiston, Portland, and Waterville.

Although the user-to-dealer transformation is common, there also are larger distribution operations within the state. The MDEA, the DEA, the Brunswick Police Department, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) investigated a Dominican criminal group distributing cocaine, crack cocaine, and 87-percent-pure heroin through local street dealers in Portland. As a result of this 1997 investigation, 16 suspects were arrested and convicted.

Independent Caucasian dealers form the backbone of retail heroin operations in Maine. These dealers travel to cities in Massachusetts and to New York City to purchase heroin. Most heroin retailers sell the drug to support their own heroin habits. Often, new addicts travel out of Maine seeking lower heroin prices and, after finding a source, the addicts purchase more than they need for personal use. They sell the excess heroin in Maine, taking advantage of the retail cost differential between distribution cities like Lowell and Lynn and Maine market cities like Bath and Portland. The MDEA reports that heroin can be purchased in distribution cities in Massachusetts for $4 to $6 per retail unit and sold in cities in Maine for $8 to $45.

justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs/657/heroin.htm#Distribution

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Did he say something false? Sometimes the facts are uncomfortable, get over it.

You can just come out and say you're a racist at this point. No one will think any different of you.

It happens. How is pointing out a problem, regardless of race, racist? Do blacks get a free pass from the problem? It certainly made you remember the problem, now didn't it?

What's the problem? The nonexistent black drug dealers in Maine that are apparently knocking up white girls? Whew, I'm glad we don't agree on anything, because if we did, I would think I was the dumbest person alive.

Nobody thinks you are cool or funny, Ebsy. Give it a rest. Or just get out.

Do you have any real dispute with what I said? I mean, I know you're the forum's premiere defender of racists and idiots, but you've really been stooping in the gutter lately.

I don't think you are necessarily wrong about the first sentence, but the second sentence is where you veer off into your typical douchebag territory.

[Adam Griffin]

Dominican DTOs are the primary suppliers of South American heroin in Maine. They supply independent dealers who travel from Maine to several Massachusetts cities including Lawrence and Lowell. The MDEA Augusta Task Force reports the pattern of heroin distribution from Massachusetts suppliers to dealers who travel from market areas in Maine remains steady. Heroin dealers from Rockland and Waldoboro, Maine, travel to New Bedford, Massachusetts; dealers from Kennebec County, Maine, travel to Worcester, Massachusetts; and dealers from Bath and Brunswick, Maine, travel to Lawrence, Lowell, and Lynn, Massachusetts.

Dominican DTOs increased their drug trafficking activities in the Northeast during the past decade and have developed sophisticated methods of operation. Most of the heroin distributed by Dominican DTOs is transported to New York City from South America by couriers on commercial airlines. While New York City remains the primary distribution center, Dominican DTOs now use Philadelphia and the Boston area, including Lowell and Lawrence, as secondary wholesale distribution centers. Dominican criminal groups operating at the wholesale or retail levels have been reported throughout New England and, in particular, in the Maine cities of Auburn, Augusta, Bangor, Houlton, Lewiston, Portland, and Waterville.

Although the user-to-dealer transformation is common, there also are larger distribution operations within the state. The MDEA, the DEA, the Brunswick Police Department, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) investigated a Dominican criminal group distributing cocaine, crack cocaine, and 87-percent-pure heroin through local street dealers in Portland. As a result of this 1997 investigation, 16 suspects were arrested and convicted.

Independent Caucasian dealers form the backbone of retail heroin operations in Maine. These dealers travel to cities in Massachusetts and to New York City to purchase heroin. Most heroin retailers sell the drug to support their own heroin habits. Often, new addicts travel out of Maine seeking lower heroin prices and, after finding a source, the addicts purchase more than they need for personal use. They sell the excess heroin in Maine, taking advantage of the retail cost differential between distribution cities like Lowell and Lynn and Maine market cities like Bath and Portland. The MDEA reports that heroin can be purchased in distribution cities in Massachusetts for $4 to $6 per retail unit and sold in cities in Maine for $8 to $45.

justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs/657/heroin.htm#Distribution

Thanks for refuting all of this nonsense! It's now obvious that "Independent Caucasian dealers form the backbone of retail heroin operations in Maine" and that they must be the ones who "travel to cities in Massachusetts and to New York City to purchase heroin", and upon return, start raping all the white girls!

[Ebowed]

As someone who lives in an extremely white area that also has a massive meth problem, I can confirm that there are MANY white drug dealers. Plenty of them are racist hicks who would probably vote LePage in fact!

Maybe LePage was referring to out of state white drug dealers impregnating young white women. Hey, anything is possible.

Why would you even write that?  It's clearly not true.  LePage has made racially insensitive remarks before; why would he suddenly have the benefit of the doubt when he's the one complaining about "white girls" being impregnated?  You realize that racists have always complained about their white girls bearing the children of "ethnics", right?  It's a staple.  Is needlessly defending a racist with blatantly false speculation something that you do now?

[MaxQue]

Why all US policitians of Canadian ancestry are pretty much awful?

I'm so sorry than his family left Quebec at some point (his grandfather is from Rimouski).

[Adam Griffin]

Has anyone seen his jack-ass "apology" yet?

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