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Without Vaseline

1. Democratic Sen. Troy Jackson
“claims to be for the people but he’s the first one to give it to the people without Vaseline.”
2. LePage also said that Jackson has a “black heart” and that he should go back in the woods and cut trees
“and let someone with a brain come down here and do some good work.”
Occasionally Governor LePage says something so stupid it draws national attention. After Senator Jackson gave the Democratic response to LePage’s budget veto, LePage attacked Jackson with those words, offending Maine’s Democrats, lumberjacks, sexual assault victims, and just about anyone with any feelings.

 My running theme here will be that LePage's statements are stupid because the alienate people. In politics you need people's cooperation to accomplish things. LePage cannot accomplish what he wants to because he has alienated not only his political enemies, but many who should be his allies.

Download my epub "Twenty-five Stupid Things Paul LePage Has Said" here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6dMdDjGwf64ZHNMcDB4VWxyQ1k/edit?usp=sharing

Comments

Brenda P said…
Hey Jeff - dying to read your 25 stupid things, but I can't download it. I get the message that my computer can't read that kind of file - or something like that!
3:45 PM
Jeff said…
Yes it is an ePub.
I will upload a word file at my next opportunity.
7:31 AM
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