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Maine Could Elect The Country's First Gay Governor – But LGBT Activists Are Split
Guardian (UK) ^ | November 01, 2014 | Jon Swaine

Posted on 11/01/2014 5:57:21 PM PDT by Steelfish

Maine Could Elect The Country's First Gay Governor – But LGBT Activists Are Split Democrat Mike Michaud is in a neck-and-neck race with incumbent Paul LePage but he persistently voted against gay rights legislation before coming out

Jon Swaine 1 November 2014

The man who may soon be the first openly gay person elected as a governor in the US sat silently in Maine’s house of representatives as an older colleague embarked on a homophobic tirade against the anti-discrimination proposal that they were considering.

“I don’t see them as gay because they never smile, they have got that withdrawn look,” J Robert Carrier, a Democrat from Westbrook, told the chamber in Augusta in May 1983, as a 28-year-old Mike Michaud looked on. “I feel sorry for those people,” said Carrier.

Urging fellow lawmakers to vote against a bill that would have outlawed discrimination against Maine’s estimated 100,000 gay citizens for housing or jobs, Carrier said that just as “if you want to be a drunk, if you want to be a liar, if you want to be a thief, if you want to be a crook”, the solution to homosexuality was “self-discipline”.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: 2014election; election2014; homosexualagenda; jrobertcarrier; maine; mikemichaud; paullepage
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1 posted on 11/01/2014 5:57:21 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

LePage isn’t gay?


2 posted on 11/01/2014 5:59:32 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Steelfish
"LGBT Activists Are Split"

Yeah, that's one of the problems, now isn't it?

3 posted on 11/01/2014 6:00:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Steelfish
Maine Could Elect The Country's First Gay Governor – But LGBT Activists Are Split

Unnngh!

4 posted on 11/01/2014 6:01:07 PM PDT by RichInOC ("ARMAGEDDON!!!")
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To: Steelfish

I have a difficult time appreciating the election of a person who can’t figure out what the purpose of his weener is.

Seems like a BIG RED FLAG to me.


5 posted on 11/01/2014 6:02:18 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Steelfish

Charlie Christ???


6 posted on 11/01/2014 6:02:19 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Take a look at my FR home page for Colorado outdoor photos!)
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To: Steelfish

Maine....Let’s see....Who do we know that lives in Maine?


7 posted on 11/01/2014 6:07:56 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: GeronL

No he is not. But on Thursday, the independent candidate
Cutler, in essence said he could not win and told his supporters to vote their conscience. He is still campaigning but both Angus King and his wife switched from supporting Cutler to Michaud, the Democrat.

Cutler probably took more votes from Michaud than from LaPage so it is going to be a very close race. It will all depend on turn over. I will be at a busy intersection for a couple of hours with a LaPage sign. Early last week LaPage had a 10 point lead in a three way race. I am not as optimistic as I was.


8 posted on 11/01/2014 6:09:43 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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The FIRST??? Somebody forget that New Jersey nutcase who was cruising men’s rooms on the Interstate while his wife was in the hospital having a for-show-baby.


9 posted on 11/01/2014 6:12:47 PM PDT by madprof98
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Why has LaPage blown his 10-point lead? Tsunami of gay money?


10 posted on 11/01/2014 6:12:49 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Sacajaweau

I wouldn’t say that lobsters are gay.


11 posted on 11/01/2014 6:13:51 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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The gay marriage referendum in 2012 brought huge sums of money and an outpouring of gay voters and supporters. It cost the Republican both state house.

Paul LaPage seems to be doing everything right. But Cutler dropping out on Thursday with net Michaud more votes than LaPage. However, RCP still shows Maine going for LaPage.


12 posted on 11/01/2014 6:16:24 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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13 posted on 11/01/2014 6:18:02 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Steelfish

Different polls have different internals and different results.

The poll in the liberal Portland newspaper last Sunday had conservative Republican Paul LePage ahead 10 points in a three-way race.

The same poll had Le Page ahead by 7 points in a 2-way race between LePage and Michaud.


14 posted on 11/01/2014 6:30:28 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Enjoy Barack Obama's Legacy America (EBOLA))
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well thats as important as the first black president or what we here now “lets make history again we need the first women president” It’s more important to these idiots what you are instead of who you are. This is why we are in deep sh##


15 posted on 11/01/2014 6:40:25 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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9 The FIRST??? Somebody forget that New Jersey nutcase who was cruising men’s rooms on the Interstate while his wife was in the hospital having a for-show-baby.

Technically, should Michaud be elected, he would be the 1st open homosexual governor elected. Gov. Jim McGreevy (D-NJ) was "outed" during his watch between 2002-04. He had sired 2 children by 2 different female wives from whom he is now divorced.

16 posted on 11/01/2014 6:55:13 PM PDT by MacNaughton (" If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." POTUS#16 ALincoln)
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To: Maine Mariner

Bless you for getting out there and trying to do what you can do to keep LaPage.


17 posted on 11/01/2014 7:14:51 PM PDT by yellowdoghunter (Welcome to Obamastan! (Mrs. Yellowdoghunter))
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To: Maine Mariner

You should spell his name correctly “LePage”, not “LaPage”

Sheesh.


18 posted on 11/01/2014 7:21:25 PM PDT by Atomic Vomit (http://www.cafepress.com/aroostookbeauty/358829)
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To: Steelfish

I really don’t want to think about LGBT’s split.


19 posted on 11/01/2014 7:28:05 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: Steelfish

Yeah, that would work out well. Look what the sodomite mayor of Houston is trying to do to Christian pastors. Imagine what a sodomite governor would get away with.


20 posted on 11/01/2014 7:37:46 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (It's better to die free than live as a slave)
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