Update! This is postponed to Monday due to weather.
From over the LOLZ transom:
12:00 Noon
April 1, 2011
Hall of Flags, State House, Augusta
A press conference will be held demanding the return of the Maine Labor History mural to its rightful place at the Department of Labor.
Let’s not let one angry guy get away with this. Please attend if possible.
If all else fails to restore the mural to its proper place, let’s please start a campaign for a people’s referendum in the next election. Let’s recall LePage while we’re at it. As former Maine Attorney General Jim Tierny said recently at UMaine, “LePage doesn’t understand the extent to which his words are costing jobs.” LePage is not just bad for labor, the poor, the elderly, pregnant mothers, and children, he is even bad for business! And his first act after the removal was to increase child (teenage) labor and cut their pay below minimum wage, a very bad move for our future work force.
Unfortunately we can’t recall LePage, the best we can do is try to get as close to a veto proof majority in the legislature as possible in 2 years.
I’m think I’m glad Maine doesn’t have a recall anyways. Democrats would only use it in cases like LePage, but I think Republicans would have perennial recalls against pretty much every democrat all the time.
We do get people’s vetoes as well. So far LePage has accomplished surprisingly little actual policy change. We get the last say.
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