I have thought that giving Paul LePage the benefit of the doubt was the right thing to do. After all he will be the governor for the next 4 years unless something dramatic in the way of a recall happens.
His proposal to cut General Assistance to communities is controversial. His cuts to education are not as much as we might have expected based on his campaign. However as seems to be the regular course of action state employees and teachers under the Maine State Retirement are the first to be asked to make major contributions to help the budget. More money into retirement funds and insurance, increased retirement ages etc, all will affect them.
I am certainly not one to think that perhaps adjustments do not need to be made. I do not think that using the term fairness is the correct term. There is nothing unfair about folks having benefits that they earn. To me in fact after the fact calling their benefits unfair is only unfair to them.
And then we have our governor. A few weeks ago he said that the the chemical BPA was not proven to be a cancer causing agent. That was bad enough but then he in trying to make a joke stated that the worst that would happen is women would get little beards. This is not really an intelligent statement.
Last week the Governor stated that to pick up a newspaper in Maine was to pick up a bunch of lies. While one can disagree with the editorial slant of a newspaper that statement in regards to news coverage is not true. Moreover it is a blanket statement, and blanket statements are lazy statements made much of the time by lazy people.
The window of opportunity for LePage to keep any sense of goodwill from those people who did not vote for him but wanted him to have success for the good of the state is fast closing.
He is danger of, six months in, becoming a caricature. A combination between Jolly John and Dan Quayle is no place for the Governor to be.
Governor please just think before you speak.
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