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Chaos In Maine: Gov. LePage Botches Veto Of 19 Bills He Opposed
Talking Points Memo ^
| 07/08/2015
| Tierney Sneed
Posted on 07/08/2015 10:20:59 AM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004
Lefties stirring up confusion.
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posted on
07/08/2015 10:21:34 AM PDT
by
Fido969
To: GIdget2004
waiting to the last minute? cowardice.
i sense there is more to the story.
politicians who want to get something passed into law without being blamed for it resort to these kind of tactics. it’s all obfuscation on the surface, but back room deals when you dig deeper.
i hate politicians.
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posted on
07/08/2015 10:25:20 AM PDT
by
TangibleDisgust
("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
To: GIdget2004
The office of Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) and the clerk in the Maine House are in disagreement over the fate of 19 bills that the governor apparently did not veto in time to prevent them from becoming law. One of the bills grants welfare benefits to some immigrants, which LePage vehemently campaigned against in 2014. Inept politicians - can you imagine?
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posted on
07/08/2015 10:25:52 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: GIdget2004
If the Gov. intended to veto the bills, why didn’t he simply do so? I’ve never really followed the concept of pocket veto, the decision should be binary. You either do or do not want to pass the legislation.
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posted on
07/08/2015 10:26:42 AM PDT
by
Made In The USA
(Yes Ma'am, I said I'd like three sides of bacon with my eggs. and bacon.)
To: All
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posted on
07/08/2015 10:27:22 AM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: TangibleDisgust
i hate politicians.Don't hold back. It's not good for the immune system. Tell us how you really feel! :)
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posted on
07/08/2015 10:28:22 AM PDT
by
dware
(Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
To: GIdget2004
Too busy excusing Christie.
To: Fido969
There would not be “any confusion” had this dumb-a$$ Governor simply
vetoed the bills.
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posted on
07/08/2015 10:32:15 AM PDT
by
tennmountainman
("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
To: tennmountainman
But he is in the GOP, and therefore has to lie.
Like all in the GOP, he has to lie to conservatives
and then, without shame, support Obama.
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posted on
07/08/2015 10:34:19 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
To: TangibleDisgust
I hate politicians.That hatred is widely shared and much deserved.
To: GIdget2004
According to the embedded link in the story (not the excerpt), the legislature adjourned. At the least, they used the word "adjourn" and not "recess" in their bill.
So the governor is claiming they adjourned, and the Democrats are claiming that adjourned didn't really mean adjourned.
-PJ
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posted on
07/08/2015 10:45:02 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: GIdget2004
They should be vetoed the second they hit his desk
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posted on
07/08/2015 10:53:14 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: TangibleDisgust
I agree. He should have the guts to sign his name and say “this is a crappy law and I reject it”.
To: Political Junkie Too
the Democrats are claiming that adjourned didn't really mean adjourned. those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it...
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posted on
07/08/2015 10:55:39 AM PDT
by
TangibleDisgust
("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
To: Political Junkie Too
So the question: is there any *there* there?
But before we can determine the meaning of *there*, we must first agree on the definition of *is*.
Once having agreed on the definition of *is*,we can then determine the definition of *there*.
Once all definitions have been established we can then begin litigation to determine if, in fact, there is any appreciable amount of there there.
Oh Joy!
We can keep two judges and three armies of lawyers busy for years!
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posted on
07/08/2015 11:03:09 AM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(TED CRUZ, so "government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish")
To: dware
i hate lawyers too! ...and dirty hippies!
;)
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posted on
07/08/2015 11:07:03 AM PDT
by
TangibleDisgust
("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
To: TangibleDisgust
i hate lawyers too!At the rate law schools are turning them out, there will soon be more lawyers than humans!
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posted on
07/08/2015 11:08:10 AM PDT
by
dware
(Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
To: Fido969
Lefties stirring up confusion. After reading the story it doesn't sound like LePage needs any help in that regard.
To: TangibleDisgust
I live in Maine. Gov. Paul LePage is no coward.
If he was holding on to the bill, he did so because he didn’t want the democrats and the RINOs to override his veto. Like the article says, a pocket would allow the bill to die without giving the dems a chance to override the governor’s veto, just as long as the Maine House and Senate are not in session.
LePage is dead set against illegals getting benefits of any kind.
Maine was a sanctuary state under the previous governor, a democrat.
Two days after being sworn into office in January 2011, Paul LePage ended Maine’s status as a sanctuary state.
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posted on
07/08/2015 11:16:04 AM PDT
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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