Based on current legislation being proposed by Paul LePage, Maine is all about corporations and not at all about workers. Just once, we would like to see Paul LePage stand on the side of workers and give corporations the cold shoulder.
But this week, it has been all about the corporations. Changes in laws affecting health insurance coverage, removal of laws protecting Maine loggers from losing their jobs to Canadians, and elimination of collective bargaining rights for family care providers are three instances, just this week, in which LePage has come down on the side of corporations. More at www.appalledbylepage.com
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
LePage Administration Brain Drain Continues
Today's news just confirms what many of us already know: The LePage administration is a circus within an arrogance within a sham within a zealotry.
Today LePage lost two cabinet members, one apparently having made racist comments; another did not specify his reason. A third was transferred to a new post due to allegations of conflict of interest. This is after LePage lost his director of communications (Dan Demeritt) last week (financially overextended) and one of his top advisers (Tarren Bragden), formerly of the Maine Heritage Policy Center stepped down to move to Florida ten days before that.
More at www.appalledbylepage.com
Today LePage lost two cabinet members, one apparently having made racist comments; another did not specify his reason. A third was transferred to a new post due to allegations of conflict of interest. This is after LePage lost his director of communications (Dan Demeritt) last week (financially overextended) and one of his top advisers (Tarren Bragden), formerly of the Maine Heritage Policy Center stepped down to move to Florida ten days before that.
More at www.appalledbylepage.com
Monday, March 28, 2011
New Website Launches -- Appalled Enough Already?
Appalledbylepage.com is a new site that aims to chronicle the abuses and blunders of the LePage administration. (If you read about them in a book, you would discard the book as too absurd to be true.)
Appalledbylepage.com also aims to provide links and resources for those who are ready to take action and aim to influence the course of our ship of state.
And, finally, it is a site that aims to "think beyond Lepage." He may be here for another 33 months; but we need to do more than just stand in his way.
And, all of this after a weekend in which LePage ordered 36-foot mural removed from a conference room in the state Department of Labor, despite state, national, and even international outrage. And this was done in the dark of night.
And, finally, it is a site that aims to "think beyond Lepage." He may be here for another 33 months; but we need to do more than just stand in his way.
And, all of this after a weekend in which LePage ordered 36-foot mural removed from a conference room in the state Department of Labor, despite state, national, and even international outrage. And this was done in the dark of night.
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