[rightwingintelligentsia]

From the article:

LePage also apologized repeatedly to Rep. Drew Gattine and his family for leaving a threatening voicemail last week.

He said he plans to invite the Westbrook representative to a face-to-face meeting to talk further.

“When I was called a racist I just lost it, and there’s no excuse,” the governor said. “It’s unacceptable. It’s totally my fault.”

LePage said being called a racist for him was, “like calling a black man the ‘N’ word or a woman the ‘C’ word. It just absolutely knocked me off my feet.”

The governor left the obscenity-filled voicemail for Gattine last Thursday, after Gattine criticized the governor’s remarks at a town hall forum the night before as racially charged. Gattine has denied calling the governor a racist.

The governor said he’s been keeping a three-ring binder of arrested drug dealers in Maine, and he says 90 percent of the faces in it are black or Hispanic.

[JimRed]

The governor said he’s been keeping a three-ring binder of arrested drug dealers in Maine, and he says 90 percent of the faces in it are black or Hispanic.

I guess the governor missed the memo; when spoken about a protected class, TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!