Controversial Maine Governor Paul LePage verbally assaulted a state lawmaker via voicemail that claimed the governor was racist.
According to the Portland Press Herald, LePage sent a voicemail message on Aug. 24 to Rep. Drew Gattine after a news reporter may have suggested that Gattine and others called LePage a racist.
But the state lawmaker has denied that he made that claim toward the governor.
In the voicemail, LePage denied all allegations of racism tossed at him.
He says he has helped Black people during his political career.
“Mr. Gattine, this is Gov. Paul Richard LePage. I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you —–sucker. I want to talk to you. I want you to prove that I’m a racist. I’ve spent my life helping Black people and you little son-of-a-b—-, socialist —–sucker. You … I need you to, just friggin. I want you to record this and make it public because I am after you. Thank you.”
LePage told the Press Herald that he wishes it was the year 1825 so the two could have a duel.
“And we would have a duel, that’s how angry I am,” he said. “I guarantee you, I would not be [Alexander] Hamilton.”
However, his recent proclamation about helping Black people comes after a year of racial incidents where he claimed that Black people are drug dealers.
For instance, during a January Bridgton, Maine town hall, the governor stated that Black and Hispanic drug traffickers impregnate white women when they come to Maine.
“… 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, sell their heroin and go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave …”
This week, the Republican doubled down on his January statements stating that 90 percent of drug dealers are Black, reports WMTM.
LePage insisted at the Aug. 24 town hall that he kept a binder with every drug dealer in the state to prove his point.
“I don’t ask them to come to Maine to sell their poison, but they come. And I will tell you, that 90-plus percent of those pictures in my book — and it’s a three-ring binder — are black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Connecticut, the Bronx, and Brooklyn.”
This was the comment made by LePage tonight about a collection of pictures he says he has of drug dealers in Maine. pic.twitter.com/AusJXSN0i2
— Morgan Sturdivant (@MSturdivantWMTW) August 25, 2016
