Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) did not hold back when he made racially charged comments regarding his state’s drug problem at a town hall meeting.
LePage, who is a longtime friend of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and was the first major elected official to endorse Christie for president, addressed Wednesday night the drug trafficking problem in Maine but seemed to blame the issue on people of color.
” now the traffickers, these aren’t people that take drugs,” LePage said. “These are guys that are named D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty, these types of guys that come from Connecticut and New York. They come up here, they sell their heroin, and they go home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave. Which is a real sad thing, because now we have another issue that we’ve gotta deal with down the road. We’re gonna make ’em very severe penalties.”
