Gov LePage: Indian Workers Are ‘The Worst Ones’ To Understand

Maine Gov. Paul LePage delivers a keynote address at the Maine GOP convention in Bangor, Maine, Saturday, April 23, 2016. Maine Republicans have elected a slate of delegates to the national convention that's heavy on... Maine Gov. Paul LePage delivers a keynote address at the Maine GOP convention in Bangor, Maine, Saturday, April 23, 2016. Maine Republicans have elected a slate of delegates to the national convention that's heavy on supporters of Ted Cruz. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT MORE LESS
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BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Republican governor says it’s hard to understand workers “from Bulgaria” and workers from India are “the worst ones.”

Gov. Paul LePage said Saturday that foreign workers are being used in restaurants after he criticized a referendum proposal to raise Maine’s minimum wage to $12. He says he’s disappointed his alternative proposal to hike the wage to $10 didn’t get traction.

He described Indians as “lovely people but you’ve got to have an interpreter.”

LePage is known for making controversial remarks. In this case, he was chuckling as he spoke at the state party convention. He joked that his wife is going to get a job as a waitress for supplemental income.

He also had a crude remark about President Barack Obama, saying Obama stands for “one big-ass mistake, America.”

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  1. Avatar for wwss wwss says:

    Obviously gunning for the Trump VP slot.

  2. Welcome to the post-PC world. :grimacing:

  3. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Wow. Give this man a prime-time slot at the national convention. With those pithy one-liners, he should be a household name in no time.

  4. Commenting about this guy’s assholery seems superfluous. If you want to take something constructive away from this story, you might want to consider how America’s least popular and most divisive governors got elected, and then re-elected, in a very moderate state. This is what can happen when we have third and fourth party candidates who appeal beyond the fringe.
    America is a 2 party country. Let’s keep it that way. As tempting as it is to consider a 3rd party run when the primaries don’t go your way, don’t do. Just don’t. Remember the old: Fall in love in the primaries. Fall in line in the general.
    Please don’t LePage the country.

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