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Paul LePage
Paul Richard LePage is an American businessman and politician who served as the 74th governor of Maine from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the mayor of Waterville, Maine, from 2004 to 2011 and as a city councilor for Waterville from 1998 to 2002.
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Born 9 October 1948 · Q881196
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2026· 10 entries
“Guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty . . . they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home.”
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“Job creation and investment opportunities are being lost because we do not have a fair balance between our economic interests and the need to protect the environment.”
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“claims to be for the people but he”
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“s labor movement from the lobby of the Maine Department of Labor offices. Despite protests, on March 28 it was disclosed that the murals had been removed over the weekend. The Portland Museum of Art issued a statement that said LePage”
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Maine Public: House Speaker Mike Johnson stumps for Paul LePage in 2nd District race
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Bangor Daily News: Paul LePage aims to serve in Congress as long as ‘health and sanity’ allow
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Portland Press Herald: House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Paul LePage ‘one of the most qualified’ House candidates in history
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foxbangor.com: Paul LePage receives NRA endorsement for CD2 race
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Bangor Daily News: Paul LePage endorsed by NRA in 2nd Congressional District race
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage to run for Congress in Trump-friendly district held by Democrat Golden
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LePage announced his candidacy for Maine's 2nd congressional district in 2026
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2021· 1 entry
Officially announced his candidacy for governor
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2019· 2 entries
LePage was given an honorary degree by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees to recognize his support of education in Maine, and specifically the university system
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LePage moved back to Maine
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2018· 2 entries
Vetoed a bill to establish retail sales of cannabis in Maine in accordance with an initiative that voters approved in 2016
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LePage vetoed a bill banning conversion therapy, arguing that the proposed legislation would undermine the ability of therapists to converse with their clients
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2017· 1 entry
That he would not run, preferring to focus on being governor
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2016· 2 entries
But the effort was indefinitely postponed, effectively killing it, on a 96–52 vote
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LePage's approval ratings registered at 38%
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2015· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Governor Paul LePage said that the "worst possible thing" you can do for the homeless is to offer them food and shelter.” False.
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LePage stated he was "very strongly" considering entering the 2018 U
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2014· 6 entries
For $215,000 that they intended to live in once his term as governor had concluded
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The website Talking Points Memo reported that LePage had met eight times with members of the sovereign citizen movement between January and September 2013
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LePage and his wife purchased a home in Boothbay on July 30, 2014, for $215,000 that they intended to live in once his term as governor had concluded.
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“s 1.3 million people have 26 hospitals, while Maine”
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Was re-elected in a less crowded election with 48% of the vote
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Of the 1,211 people in Maine arrested on charges of drug sales or manufacturing only 14
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2013· 13 entries
LePage pledged $10,000 from his official contingency account to a program run by Portland-based LearningWorks for helping new immigrants learn the English language
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LePage said that "About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don't work
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LePage declared a civil emergency in Maine ending 17 days later
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LePage received an award from the Maine Suicide Prevention Program to recognize his efforts to prevent and raise awareness about suicide
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LePage pledged $50,000 of his emergency fund to a drug treatment center in Ellsworth
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When asked if he was concerned about hurting his re-election campaign, he replied, "Who said I'm running
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After speaking at a rally opposed to the bipartisan biennial budget proposal voted out of the Legislature, LePage responded to criticism from Democratic Assistant Majority Leader Senator Troy Jackson that LePage was "del
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And has criticized efforts by the Legislature to write an expansion bill that will obtain enough votes to override a veto, stating that the Legislature has "no compassion"
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LePage announced that he would move his office out of the Maine State Capitol and work from The Blaine House due to what he called efforts by majority Democrats in the Legislature to censor his speech
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LePage stated that it was likely that he would seek re-election in 2014
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LePage summoned a dozen state employees of the Bureau of Unemployment to the Blaine House for a luncheon to discuss the state's unemployment compensation hearing and appeals process
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“I think we need to treat, Let”
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“About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don”
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2012· 3 entries
LePage and his Commissioner of Education, Stephen Bowen, unveiled a second round of reform proposals which issued that domestic students were getting "poorer" educational practice, regarding required examinations for adm
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LePage said, while discussing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was "the new Gestapo" due to their role in enforcing the law
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LePage stated that Maine's "middle management" was corrupt, sparking backlash from worker groups and Maine politicians
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2011· 2 entries
LePage sparked protests when he announced that he planned to remove a large mural depicting the history of the state's labor movement from the lobby of the Maine Department of Labor offices
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Career landmark: Governor of Maine (2011–2019).
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2010· 2 entries
LePage was elected governor, winning with 37% of the vote in a race with four major candidates
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And 2014, both times with a plurality, not majority, of the vote, and his unpopular tenure, has been cited as a primary motivating factor for the change in voting systems
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2009· 2 entries
LePage announced that he would be seeking the 2010 Republican nomination for governor of Maine
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LePage opposed allowing same-sex couples to marry
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2008· 1 entry
LePage was reelected mayor, defeating Democratic challenger Rosemary Winslow by a margin of 51 percent to 49 percent
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2007· 1 entry
Was named "Maine Business Champion" by the National Federation of Independent Business
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2006· 1 entry
LePage was voted the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce's businessman of the year
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2003· 1 entry
LePage sought the office of mayor of Waterville, running against Democratic candidate Charles Kellenberger and independent Daniel Dufour
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1996· 1 entry
Was hired as general manager of Marden's, a Maine-based discount retail chain
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1988· 4 entries
“We the people have been told there is no choice. You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo — the IRS.”
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“The Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated, maybe the IRS is not quite as bad — yet. ... They're headed in that direction.”
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“My brain was slower than my mouth.”
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“I have a heart. I have a heart for Maine people.”
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1984· 1 entry
LePage has two children with his second wife, Ann DeRosby, whom he married in 1984.
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1971· 2 entries
LePage married Sharon Crabbe, whose family owned a lumber business in New Brunswick, where LePage worked as treasurer and general manager
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With a bachelor's degree in business administration, and earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Maine in 1975
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1948· 2 entries
Born 1948-10-09.
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“s 2nd congressional district in 2026. Early life and education LePage was born in Lewiston, Maine, on October 9, 1948. The eldest son of 18 children of Theresa (née Gagnon) and Gerard LePage, both of French Canadian descent, he grew up speaking French in an impoverished home with an abusive father who was a mill worker. His father drank heavily and terrorized the children, and his mother was too intimidated to stop him. His brother Moe later said of their father,”
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1825· 1 entry
“And we would have a duel, that”
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