Gubernatorial election coming up? He's term limited though, Maine's got a funky new electoral system that he was bitching about a little while ago. He was saying he wouldn't ratify the decision under the new system and the electoral officer said "suit yourself, we'll do it without you" or words to that effect.
Sadly the new election system won't be utilized for the governor's seat - it requires a state constitutional amendment to be used for state general elections. So our Senators will be elected using RCV, our gubernatorial primaries were held using RCV, but our governor will be a regular election.
That being said, LePage should have never have made it to the Governor's seat in the first place, he won his first election with 38% of the vote - progressive independent Eliot Cutler had 36% and the Democratic candidate had 19%.
2014 was a nightmare election in Maine, as out-of-state animal rights activists started a bear-hunting referendum that only succeeded in turning out the rural vote who are terrified of out-of-staters telling them how to hunt, and LePage managed to hold onto his seat.
That being said, the quote regarding people of color being "enemies" is just par for the course for LePage:
Regarding undocumented immigrants: "I have been trying to get the President to pay attention to illegals in our country ... because there is a spike in hepatitis C, tuberculosis, HIV, and it is going on deaf ears."
Regarding the IRS: "What I am trying to say is 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."
Regarding black guys impregnating white Mainers: “These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty – these types of guys – they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we have to deal with down the road.”
