Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) said Wednesday that he has no plans to resign after a week full of high-profile embarrassments, but does intend to seek “spiritual guidance.”
“I will not resign,” LePage told reporters in his office after a meeting with Maine state Rep. Drew Gattine (D), for whom LePage left a bizarre and threatening voicemail last week.
According to the Boston Globe, LePage also said that he would seek “spiritual guidance” with his family, but had no plans to seek “professional help.”
He vowed to “no longer speak to the press ever again after today,” saying that he was tired of being caught in “gotcha moments” by the media.
“I’m serious. Everything will be put into writing,” LePage said. “I’m tired of being caught in the gotcha moments.”
LePage’s political future, and his tenure as governor, seemed uncertain after his controversial comments calling minorities “the enemy” and blaming them for Maine’s drug crisis, as well as the voicemail in which he called Gattine a “socialist cocksucker” and warned the representative that LePage was “after” him.
On Tuesday, LePage went so far as to suggest that he might be unable to finish his second term as governor.
“I think some things I’ve been asked to do are beyond my ability,” he said. “I’m not going to say that I’m not going to finish it. I’m not saying that I am going to finish it.”
Later, however, LePage took to Twitter to blast reports of his possible resignation as “greatly exaggerated.”
Geeze, Paul, you get the nation’s hopes up, then this.
Come on, guy, get with the program!
Anyone have an egg timer so we can check on this?
From the man who ‘self-gotchas’ above and beyond the call of duty.
You stupid fuckhead, there are no such things as “gotcha” moments. You said what you said and the press reported it. There were no surprise questions and you weren’t ambushed into making that late night phone call drunk off your ass.
You are an embarrassment to the state in which I live, and an embarrassment as a human being. You are a dunk and a racist and a piss poor manager to boot. you should be in jail and not in the Blaine House.
The thin that galls me most is that going forward, part of my tax money will go to pay your pension, you government-teat suckling piece of excrement.
Walking train wreck. He can’t help himself. LePage will continue to crap all over himself and the citizens of Maine.