Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Racist or matter of fact?


Maine Gov.: Bring back the guillotine, public executions
WRITTEN BY SCOTT SUTTON POSTED: 01/27/2016, 06:44AM


Maine Gov. Paul LePage said during a radio interview Tuesday that the guillotine should be brought back as a way to make penalties for drug trafficking stricter.

“I think the death penalty should be appropriate for people that kill Mainers,” LePage said Tuesday during interview on WVOM. “I’m all in.”

He then suggested two ways that the state could go about administering the death penalty.

“Actually, if you want my honest opinion, we should give them an injection of the stuff they sell,” LePage told the hosts.

“What I think we ought to do is bring the guillotine back,”

LePage said later during the interview. “We could have public executions.”

The Associated Press reported that the Republican governor’s office said the comments were merely meant as jokes to let people know he means business about heightening penalties against drug offenders.

LePage took heat earlier this month for comments that many perceived as racially insensitive when he described “guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” coming to Maine to sell drugs .

“Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we’ve got to deal with down the road,” he added during those comments.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous1/27/2016

    OK, I guess we don't have a monopoly on governors that are morons.

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    1. Anonymous1/27/2016

      I'm not so sure that governor is that off the beam.

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