For nitpickers and semanticists, who take email forwards seriously instead of "just for fun", below is an article [whose author is ??] whose accuracy has not been checked with either Snopes.com or FactorFiction.com. However, whether it is true or not, it is quite an interesting piece.
In case you haven't heard about the new Governor of Maine, his name is Paul Le Page.
Governor Le Page makes New Jersey's Chris Christie look like an enabler. He isn't afraid to say what he thinks. And his comments every time he opens his mouth have caused his popularity to rise. Below are a few examples:
>He brought down the house during his inauguration when he shook his fist toward the media box and said, "You're on notice! I've inherited a financially-troubled State to run. Observe the following: cover what we do, but don't whine if I don't waste time responding to your every whim for your amusement."
> During his campaign for Governor, he once talked to commercial fishermen who were struggling because of burdensome federal fisheries rules. The fishermen complained that Obama brought his family to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park for a long Labor Day holiday and found time to meet with union leaders, but wouldn't talk to the fishermen. LePage's comment was: "I would've told him to go to hell and get out of my State." While the mainstream news media crucified LePage for his statement, his pre-election poll jumped 6 points higher!
> Another incident was during the 2011 Martin Luther King Day, which was a political sandbag which brought him national exposure. While the mainstream media crucified him, yet people's reaction on the street was very positive. During that incident, the NAACP specifically demanded LePage to spend MLK Day visiting black inmates at the Maine State Prison. He told the NAACP that he would meet with all inmates, regardless of race, if he were to visit the prison. The NAACP then put out a news release claiming falsely that he refused to participate in any MLK events. When he read the NAACP comment in the local newspaper the next morning while being driven to the MLK event, he went ballistic. When he arrived at the MLK event, his comment in front of a TV camera was: "If they (the NAACP) want to play the race card on me, they can kiss my ass!" He then went on to remind the NAACP as well as the general public and the news media that he has an adopted black son from Jamaica and that he has attended the local MLK breakfast every year when he was the Mayor of Waterville! He then stated that there's a right way and a wrong way to meet with the Governor, and he put all special interests on notice that press releases, media leaks, and all demonstrations would prove to be the wrong way. He also added that ". . .any other group which acted like the NAACP could expect to be at the bottom of the Governor's priority list! After having said the above, his popularity increased even more.
> After taking office early this year, the State employees union complained because he waited until 3 P.M. before closing State offices and facilities and sending non-emergency personnel home during the last blizzard. [The prior Governor often closed government offices for the day when there was a forecast of snow, even before the first snowflakes fell. Each time the State government offices closed for snow, it cost taxpayers about $1 million in wages for the government's having done absolutely no work in return.]
LePage who was the CEO of the Marden's chain of discount family bargain retail stores before his becoming governor, had noted that many State employees residing in his city, who were allowed to get off work early because of snow forecast went shopping instead of going home. So, after he was elected Governor, he announced to State employees that, ". . .If Marden's is open, Maine government offices will be open!" He also told the State employees: "We live in Maine, for heaven's sake, so we live in a State where we know how to drive in a snowstorm in the dead of winter; otherwise, you can apply for a State job in Florida!"
Governor LePage symbolizes what America needs---politicians and government workers who are not self-serving and who exhibit plenty of common sense!
Wouldn't it be great if LePage could be cloned several times over, so that all government workers and "public servants" could be like him --- ones who can act, behave and think like him in every state and federal government office?
Author Unknown
In case you haven't heard about the new Governor of Maine, his name is Paul Le Page.
Governor Le Page makes New Jersey's Chris Christie look like an enabler. He isn't afraid to say what he thinks. And his comments every time he opens his mouth have caused his popularity to rise. Below are a few examples:
>He brought down the house during his inauguration when he shook his fist toward the media box and said, "You're on notice! I've inherited a financially-troubled State to run. Observe the following: cover what we do, but don't whine if I don't waste time responding to your every whim for your amusement."
> During his campaign for Governor, he once talked to commercial fishermen who were struggling because of burdensome federal fisheries rules. The fishermen complained that Obama brought his family to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park for a long Labor Day holiday and found time to meet with union leaders, but wouldn't talk to the fishermen. LePage's comment was: "I would've told him to go to hell and get out of my State." While the mainstream news media crucified LePage for his statement, his pre-election poll jumped 6 points higher!
> Another incident was during the 2011 Martin Luther King Day, which was a political sandbag which brought him national exposure. While the mainstream media crucified him, yet people's reaction on the street was very positive. During that incident, the NAACP specifically demanded LePage to spend MLK Day visiting black inmates at the Maine State Prison. He told the NAACP that he would meet with all inmates, regardless of race, if he were to visit the prison. The NAACP then put out a news release claiming falsely that he refused to participate in any MLK events. When he read the NAACP comment in the local newspaper the next morning while being driven to the MLK event, he went ballistic. When he arrived at the MLK event, his comment in front of a TV camera was: "If they (the NAACP) want to play the race card on me, they can kiss my ass!" He then went on to remind the NAACP as well as the general public and the news media that he has an adopted black son from Jamaica and that he has attended the local MLK breakfast every year when he was the Mayor of Waterville! He then stated that there's a right way and a wrong way to meet with the Governor, and he put all special interests on notice that press releases, media leaks, and all demonstrations would prove to be the wrong way. He also added that ". . .any other group which acted like the NAACP could expect to be at the bottom of the Governor's priority list! After having said the above, his popularity increased even more.
> After taking office early this year, the State employees union complained because he waited until 3 P.M. before closing State offices and facilities and sending non-emergency personnel home during the last blizzard. [The prior Governor often closed government offices for the day when there was a forecast of snow, even before the first snowflakes fell. Each time the State government offices closed for snow, it cost taxpayers about $1 million in wages for the government's having done absolutely no work in return.]
LePage who was the CEO of the Marden's chain of discount family bargain retail stores before his becoming governor, had noted that many State employees residing in his city, who were allowed to get off work early because of snow forecast went shopping instead of going home. So, after he was elected Governor, he announced to State employees that, ". . .If Marden's is open, Maine government offices will be open!" He also told the State employees: "We live in Maine, for heaven's sake, so we live in a State where we know how to drive in a snowstorm in the dead of winter; otherwise, you can apply for a State job in Florida!"
Governor LePage symbolizes what America needs---politicians and government workers who are not self-serving and who exhibit plenty of common sense!
Wouldn't it be great if LePage could be cloned several times over, so that all government workers and "public servants" could be like him --- ones who can act, behave and think like him in every state and federal government office?
Author Unknown
I heartly approve of this brave and devoted public servant.
ReplyDeleteIf only the phony, money chasing self serving DC bunch would learn from this politician, maybe, just maybe we could pull this Country out of the mess they put us in.
As for the NAACP and Unions, they can kiss my butt too.
Mr. Obama is invited to participate as well.
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