Alexa Shrugged: January 2011

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Kiss My Butt, NAACP

This guy sounds pretty cool

Maine Gov. Paul LePage on NAACP: "Tell 'em to kiss my butt."

"They are a special interest. End of story...and I'm not going to be held hostage by special interests. And if they want, they can look at my family picture. My son happens to be black, so they can do whatever they'd like about it," said LePage.

LePage has an adopted son who is from Jamaica.

"Tell 'em to kiss my butt. If they want to play the race card, come to dinner and my son will talk to them."

During the campaign, while speaking in front of a group of fishermen, then-candidate LePage said if he were elected governor, headlines would read "Governor LePage tells President Obama to go to hell." At the time LePage said he regretted his choice of words, but stood behind the intent.
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Can't feed the homeless without a permit

So they'd rather let them starve than eat non-certified food??? Ridiculous liberal laws and regulations make the perfect the enemy of the good.

Amplify’d from www.chron.com

City puts a stop to homeless outreach

Couple must have proper permit to continue feeding dozens each day

Anyone serving food for public consumption, whether for the homeless or for sale, must have a permit, said Kathy Barton, a spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services Department. To get that permit, the food must be prepared in a certified kitchen with a certified food manager.

The regulations are all the more essential in the case of the homeless, Barton said, because "poor people are the most vulnerable to foodborne illness and also are the least likely to have access to health care."
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