LePage: Eliminating Electoral College Would Make Whites ‘A Forgotten People’

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2016, file photo, Gov. Paul LePage speaks at a news conference at the State House in Augusta, Maine. Critics of LePage on Thursday, Jan. 14, took up a longshot bid to impeach him over allegatio... FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2016, file photo, Gov. Paul LePage speaks at a news conference at the State House in Augusta, Maine. Critics of LePage on Thursday, Jan. 14, took up a longshot bid to impeach him over allegations of abuse of power. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File) MORE LESS
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Former Gov. Paul LePage (R) tore apart a bill currently in the Maine state legislature that proposes essentially eliminating the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote because it would only “be minorities that elect” the President.

According to a Thursday Maine Beacon report, LePage told local radio station WVOM that the legislation would render him and other whites “a forgotten people.”

“Actually what would happen if they do what they say they’re gonna do is white people will not have anything to say,” LePage said. “It’s only going to be the minorities that would elect. It would be California, Texas, Florida.”

LePage has made some unrelated headlines lately, allegedly just finding out that his administration (thus, the taxpayers) spent $1,100 per night on Trump hotel rooms and contending that a lost 2018 House race was a “stolen election.”

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  1. I would like to forget LePage…

  2. What if we tried to get votes without reference to skin color, asshole. I suspect most Americans have more in common with people of their economic class than with everybody with the same skin color.

  3. Avatar for zd123 zd123 says:

    On the merits, it is an incredibly stupid statement–minorities are by a definition a minority of the population. What it really means is that the electoral college overemphasizes the votes of predominantly white states like Maine, Wyoming, Nebraska, Alaska. It is gerrymandered to give disproportionate weight to whites.

    Beyond that, it is the usual moronic, racist crap typical of LePage.

    Isn’t he irrelevant now? When is he gone for good? Can we just ignore him now?

  4. This guy is no outlier if you spend any time in New England’s own Alabama: Maine. I guess its the fault of nonwhites that your old mill towns are desolate wastelands full of (white) junkies that can’t hold down jobs.

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