Posted on 01/14/2011 12:31:52 PM PST by markomalley
The NAACP wanted Gov. LePage to appear at two functions....one in Orono, north of Bangor, at the University of Maine, and one in Portland.
One of these events is Sunday and one on Monday. Orono is at least a two hour drive each way north of Augusta, Maine’s capital, and Portland is at least a two hour drive each way south of Augusta. Too much of a demand on the governor’s time if you ask me.
During the campaign last year, LePage told a group of commercial fishermen here in Maine that if elected, he (LePage) would spend alot of his time telling Obama to go to hell.
Paul LePage, a newly elected Republican... "If they want, they can look at my family picture," he said. "My son happens to be black, so they can do whatever they'd like about it." LePage's son is adopted. LePage said he's simply too busy to attend.
Well, there is an event tomorrow at the State House at which our Governor is expected to make an appearance:
And despite a bum leg, I might have to be there.
Any other ProLife Maineiac FReepers in here, we’d love to see ya!
NAACP probably wanted to do to Paul LePage what they did to Bob Dole in 1996. They invited him to some event where they sandbagged him. He was so shaken by that humiliation that he turned down an invitation by the Congress on Racial Equality run at the time by Roy Innis. ROY INNIS, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! That guy is even more conservative than I am!
I went home and told my wife: that fool just lost the election. If you can’t tell black people apart, you’re too tone deaf to be president.
Missing among those attributes are things like a respect for property, free enterprise, a welcoming attitude towards business, etc.
If you or your business is considering filing for bankruptcy then Maine is the place to be.
The biggest employer in Maine is the State of Maine.
An ambitious young person in Maine could take out the loans necessary to buy a skidder and work in the woods or, better yet, get a job collecting tolls on the turnpike. The truly ambitious get the heck out of state.
What too many people aspire for is a cushy government sinecure that will ensure them the same hand to mouth lifestyle that their parents endured.
Pick the most decrepit piece of Appalachia and toss in some pine trees, a few blue plastic tarps and a Marshall Dodge record.
Maine's a nice place to visit, but after seven years trying to make a living there with the punishing tax rates, institutionalized hostility to commerce,etc. I'm glad to be an outsider who comes back just to visit.
Maine is like Haiti with lobsters.
Haiti probably has zoning laws though.
Used to be 17 blacks, but now we have thousands of immigrant Somalis.
Leftists love ‘em.
40,000.
No probably 4000.
The NAACP wanted Gov. LePage to appear at two functions....one in Orono, north of Bangor, at the University of Maine, and one in Portland.
As someone who has attended the Maine Martin Luther King day festivities four times I can tell you that the Governor is missing a six hour rant by various organizaions who talk about racism, racism, brother hood, sister hood, then some more racism. As a Caucasian mother of black children I was offened and bored.
MLK functions are a waste of good time IMHO. There are many ways to celebrate the steps our country has taken to combat race issues. That ain’t one.
Now Newsweek tells us Lewiston has become a boom town thanks to the immigrants.
That was before a family of Somali refugees discovered Lewiston in 2001 and began spreading the word to immigrant friends and relatives that housing was cheap and it looked like a good place to build new lives and raise children in peace. Since then, the place has been transformed. Per capita income has soared, and crime rates have dropped. In 2004, Inc. magazine named Lewiston one of the best places to do business in America, and in 2007, it was named an “All-America City” by the National Civic League, the first time any town in Maine had received that honor in roughly 40 years. “No one could have dreamed this,” says Chip Morrison, the local Chamber of Commerce president. “Not even me, and I’m an optimist.”
Africans continue to arrive.
….. the Somalis kept coming, followed by Sudanese, Congolese and other Africans. By some estimates, 4,000 new immigrants have moved to Lewiston since 2001, and dozens are still arriving every month.
But, Newsweek never really tells you what is making the economy boom. There is still no major industry. Certainly a few African shops and restaurants aren’t going to fuel the whole economy. All I can figure is that it is a government based economy. By that I mean, government grants and special loan programs for refugees help open shops. Language teachers are needed and are hired with federal grants. Refugees receive food stamps and other types of welfare and get special treatment from lending institutions to purchase homes (where have I heard that before?).
Newsweek might have more fairly balanced this article with quotes from a few critics. Surely there are even some environmental types in Maine who do not buy the ‘expand the population formula’ for economic growth.
“Increasingly, there’s an acceptance that immigration is associated with good economic growth,” says urban-studies specialist Richard Florida, director of the University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute. “How is Maine going to grow? It’s a big state with a sparse population. One of the ways to grow quickly is import people.”
To top off the joy the economic boom has brought to Lewiston, the refugees have brought that most cherished of all community attributes—cultural diversity.
One zero tooo many. 4000 Somalis in Lewiston. Here is an article from http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/newsweek-somalis-save-lewiston-me-by-bringing-population-growth/
they are supposedly saaving Lewiston. Bull. They are sucking off of city and state public services.
Oh good grief. Why do you need the government to make you a part of your own state? Can't you do that for yourselves?
Governor LePage gave a perfectly valid reason, one that is bleated over by the left continually: he does not cater to special interest groups. Stick your damnable racism card back in the deck with the jokers. Get over it. Get over yourselves.
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