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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Wed Jul 2, 2014, 04:57 AM Jul 2014

Maine’s GOP governor met with ‘sovereign citizens’ who seek execution of Dems: book

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/01/maines-gop-governor-met-with-sovereign-citizens-who-seek-execution-of-dems-book/

Maine’s GOP governor met with ‘sovereign citizens’ who seek execution of Dems: book
By Travis Gettys
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 10:38 EDT

Maine’s Republican governor vehemently denied claims in a forthcoming book that he discussed executing the state’s Democratic speaker of the House and Senate president.

A pair of “sovereign citizen” radio hosts said last year on their “Aroostook Watchmen” program that they had met with Gov. Paul LePage and talked about hanging as the punishment for high treason – which the broadcasters believed the Democratic lawmakers had committed.

“LePage indulged and supported the sovereign’s beliefs,” wrote blogger Mike Tipping in his upcoming book As Maine Went: Governor Paul LePage and the Tea Party Takeover of Maine.

Tipping has launched an online fundraising campaign to pay for the book, which has not yet been published.

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Maine’s GOP governor met with ‘sovereign citizens’ who seek execution of Dems: book (Original Post) unhappycamper Jul 2014 OP

I always think of this guy as Gov. LePetomane intaglio Jul 2014 #1

2 things,... MarianJack Jul 2014 #2

lol "Gov. LePage lies about Sovereign Citizen meetings, threatens to sue" eShirl Jul 2014 #3

intaglio

(8,170 posts)

1. I always think of this guy as Gov. LePetomane

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Wed Jul 2, 2014, 05:28 AM

Jul 2014

and wonder who his Hedley LaMar is.

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)

2. 2 things,...

Reply to intaglio (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 2, 2014, 06:12 AM

Jul 2014

...that's Hedley, not Heddy. Also..."just think of your secretary!".

PEACE!

eShirl

(18,792 posts)

3. lol "Gov. LePage lies about Sovereign Citizen meetings, threatens to sue"

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Wed Jul 2, 2014, 08:45 AM

Jul 2014

Gov. LePage lies about Sovereign Citizen meetings, threatens to sue

http://thetippingpoint.bangordailynews.com/2014/07/01/state-politics/gov-lepage-lies-about-sovereign-citizen-meetings-threatens-to-sue/

In a set of phone calls to the Bangor Daily News yesterday evening, Governor Paul LePage made a number of provably false claims about his series of meetings with members of the Constitutional Coalition, a Sovereign Citizen group whose members are part of “a domestic terrorism movement,” according to the FBI and Maine State law enforcement.

The calls came in response to a chapter of my upcoming book As Maine Went: Governor Paul LePage and the Tea Party Takeover of Maine published at the national blog Talking Points Memo yesterday and a follow-up post here at the BDN.

First, LePage claimed that he had never discussed the arrest or execution of his political opponents with the group. This is in direct contrast with what the sovereigns claimed on their Aroostook Watchmen radio show just two days after their meeting with LePage.

“We also discussed this there, that as far as I know, the penalty for high treason hasn’t changed in a hundred years, and I didn’t say it, but the governor said it – I never opened my mouth and said the word – the governor looked at us and looked at his buddy and said, ‘They’re talking about hanging them,’ ” said host Jack McCarthy on the show.

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