LePage Evolution

LePage knows the rhetoric pretty well as seen in this interview.

One almost forgets he is proposing raising taxes long before allegedly lowering them sometime, years from now, and he proposed the biggest spending budget in state history.

It's not complex: LePage proposes raising taxes and record spending

Last month, the proposed LePage budget came in at a whopping $6.3 billion.  This month, according to this article, the budget comes in at an outrageous $6.57 billion!  No explanation is given as to how the numbers changed.

BDN

‘It’s complex’: LePage kicks off tour to sell $6.57 billion budget to Maine people

Poliquin votes against repealing Obamacare

Story here.

It was a symbolic vote, as the bill easily passed; if one wants to see the good side, Bruce is willing to go against the Party, and he sites the 60,000 families that love their Obamacare subsidies (does he have polling data that these people vote for him?  Unlikely.)  Short sighted though; the "best" (that is, worst) of Obamacare is yet to come.

In fairness to Bruce, many liberty/super patriot/Constitutionalists openly supported Kevin Raye backed, Blaine Richardson--of lets invade Syria fame.  Perhaps he is looking for another constituency?  Or the Insurance companies own him.

Wait, DHHS Spending up $40 million in LePage Budget.

How long before we learn its actually raised more than $40 million?

BDN

The state share of the department’s budget totals about $3.2 billion for two years beginning on July 1, representing about $40 million more than the current biennium.

LePage Budget: Raise Spending, Get More People to Collect Service Taxes; increase spending for DHHS

BDN 1/9/2015


"The proposal also includes $112 million in new spending by the Department of Health and Human Services for elderly and disabled care programs, nursing homes, mental health services and an extension of heightened Medicaid reimbursements to primary care providers."

Election 2016: Punish Republican Towns

Press Herald 1/16/2015

The same goes for neighboring Durham, which also would be on the losing end of tax overhaul. Meanwhile, the nearby communities of Freeport, Cumberland, New Gloucester – even tiny North Yarmouth – are among the 150 municipalities that could either break even or greatly benefit, according to a preliminary analysis by the Maine Municipal Association.

Brilliant strategy for Republicans: Punish those who voted for us!