Interestingly, watching the WAGM local news tonight, I noticed they left an important part out of their coverage of Gov. Lepage's comments concerning Troy Jackson. They did not mention this comment about Sen Jackson:
“People like Troy Jackson, they ought to go back into the woods and cut
trees and let someone with a brain come down here and do some good
work.”
To me this is worse than the Vaseline comment as it is a condescending jab at people in this area of our state that toil in the woods. They did however show Lepage's "bad person" and "black heart" comments about Jackson which I hadn't seen in the earlier Bangor Daily News article. I can't, for the life of me, remeber a politician who has made such awful comments in public. I never thought I'd see it in this state, where I thought we were more civil.
I guess Jackson is taking it in stride, not letting bulldog Lepage ruffle his feathers. Lepage needs to invest in some anger management classes. We all have different visions for our state and different ideas of what will benefit it. My outrage with Lepage is not all because of his views, it's the way he has promoted them. His abrasiveness and school ground tactics invite disrespect for him and his office.
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