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Wherefore By Their Untruths Ye Shall Know Them

On October 22, 2013

At 11:42 am

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The Tea Partier Maine’s electorate elevated to the governor’s office in of its more dubious judgments has some things to say that are presumably not intended as factual statements:

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) took a page from the Mitt Romney playbook when he told a conservative audience at an event last week that 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state don’t work, the Bangor Daily News reported Tuesday.
The Daily News obtained an audio recording of LePage speaking to members of the conservative Informed Women’s Network on Oct. 14. On the recording, LePage wrapped up his remarks with two final points about “energy” and “workforce development.”

“Number two, when you talk about workforce development, it really means that the people that — about 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work,” LePage said. A woman can then be heard on the recording reacting to that figure, to which LePage reiterated “About 47 percent. It’s really bad.”

I won’t call this a “lie” because I suspect he’s convinced himself that this is actually true.