Looks to me like LePage tells it like it is - I admire that rare quality in a politician.
And it also looks to me like Gov. Christie's take on things might be rubbing off a little - and that's a good thing too.
We don't really know the circumstances of the initial communication between LePage's office and the NAACP. It could very well have been a situation where the NAACP just automatically assumed that LePage would attend MLK events and couched their query as a demand in knowing WHY he wouldn't attend - that might piss me off too.
The NAACP is a special interest group - period. Their failed agenda over the past 100 years (they were chartered in 1909) clearly tells that story.
Instead of empowering blacks and other minorities, the entitlement philosophy that the NAACP espouses has created dependencies. Black-on-black crime, creation and degradation of ghettoes, the high incident rate of black males being incarcerated - all these things cannot even remotely indicate a successful policy.
From a more pragmatic viewpoint, looking at Maine's demographic data, that state is over 96% white, leaving 4% minorities of various types.
From a political perspective, how much bang for the buck is he getting by gripping and grinning on MLK day when he could be attending the funeral of a well-respected LEO?
I posted a bit on the Governor on another forum--What do we know of the governor's is one of 11 children born to American French Canadians-- Most likely Catholic.
At the early age of 9-10 he began to deliver news papers, shovel off walks and mow grass to earn money to help the family. He spent his youth studying and working out of school to help the family. His siblings also worked for the family. While all his classmates were experimenting with drugs and booze, he was working his way up.
Nice Guy that Frenchie, a hard worker and can go far. And he did.
Little old Frenchie made the big time, no blinders on, just a stubborn man that happend to know what was important in life--family and Church.
Frenchie today must have no sympathy for those that refuse to help themselves. Family's with able bodied children that expect someone other then family to help them. How he must sit and wonder about a family crying poor mouth while the parents sit back and expect someone else to help them. Teenage kids that drop out of school and expect to be fed and clothed by strangers as their parent have spent the support money on cigarettes, drugs and booze.
Frenchie is a dieing breed, a person that came from a family that all pitched in to make their lives better by their own efforts.
Special rights must grate on Frenchie, Who has special rights other the old and infirm or the young that can never walk or talk.?
As an Asian told me as long as a person has use of their hands, they can work.
Good old Frenchie, enough with the excuses for those who consider themselves in a class of special interests.
What about the rest of us who are not placed in any special interest group, is anyone raising money for us?? Seems the special interests groups have now out numbered the people that get on in life no matter how hard it is and work our asses off be it digging a ditch or washing dishes. The number of disabled that find jobs and have pride in them are swamped by those that have anger management problems and perhaps have or, a different color to their skin, or in the country illegally.
For those that wonder I call the Governor Frenchie as to point out that I am also a Proud Canuk 3 generations ago-- and those that have put the french down Kiss my ass. Mothers side, dads was English.
