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It looks like the governor of Maine, Paul LePage won’t be attending the upcoming ceremonies marking the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday. The governor’s declined invitations from the NAACP, which LePage dismisses as “a special interest…and I’m not going to be held hostage by special interests.”
The governor’s director of communications, Dan Demeritt, told Maine television station WCSH-TV LePage has personal commitments on Sunday and will be attending the funeral of a state trooper on Monday.
But the governor was a bit more blunt–and klassy–when he spoke to reporters at a meeting of business leaders in Sanford, insisting that despite criticism, he’s not biased, and after all, his adopted son is black:
“Tell ’em to kiss my butt. If they want to play the race card, come to dinner and my son will talk to them.”
Watch the story here, from WCSH:
