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Sometimes Uncle Stevie (as hes known to fans) doesnt feel the need to respond to things that are said about him. If anyone does, he knows that life is too short to pay much attention to little darts thrown his way. But, in this case, he felt no such restraint. He let LaPage have it:
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As anyone who is familiar with writer Stephen King knows, he and his home state of Maine are closely linked. A majority of the books and stories hes written over his 40-odd (very odd) years as a popular author are set in that state. The Kings have a home in Bangor and a summer house in Lovell. The man is a Main-ah through and through.
So whatever possessed Gov. Paul LePage to insinuate that the Kings had moved to Florida to avoid paying state taxes in their home state? In his weekly radio address on Wednesday, LePage spoke about his latest attempt to get rid of the Maines state income tax. The address was full of the usual Tea Party rhetoric trying to return money, small business, hard-working, fairness, and the denial that his plan would only benefit the rich. Sure. But it was the last paragraph of the address that caused LePage s problem:
Meanwhile, remember who introduced the income tax here in Maine. Well, today former Governor Ken Curtis lives in Florida where there is zero income tax. Stephen King and Roxanne Quimby have moved away, as well.
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Sometimes Uncle Stevie (as hes known to fans) doesnt feel the need to respond to things that are said about him. If anyone does, he knows that life is too short to pay much attention to little darts thrown his way. But, in this case, he felt no such restraint. He let LaPage have it:
Governor LePage is full of the stuff that makes the grass grow green. Tabby and I pay every cent of our Maine state income taxes, and are glad to do it. We feel, as Governor LePage apparently does not, that much is owed from those to whom much has been given. We see our taxes as a way of paying back the state that has given us so much. State taxes pay for state services. Theres just no way around it. Governor LePage needs to remember there aint no free lunch.
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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/19/teabagger-gov-goes-after-maines-favorite-son-stephen-king-responds-brilliantly/
Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)King is my favorite author and always will be. He's the only one who's books I make sure to buy immediately in hard cover. Otherwise I'm all about my kindle. Something about holding his book in my hands transports me to my childhood. Love that guy!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)He is a living, breathing horror story.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Spirochete
(5,264 posts)Under the Dome.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Wasn't as scary as LePage, either..
valerief
(53,235 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)for Big Jim Rennie and Andy Sanders, respectively, in Under The Dome.
King's liberal politics are exceedingly well known to his fans.
kairos12
(12,861 posts)raccoon
(31,110 posts)Thespian2
(2,741 posts)is the worst thing to happen to Maine in its entire history. Stephen King is the most important citizen of Bangor, because he openly supports his city and his state. Perhaps LePage can move to Florida where he will find a like-minded POS, Rick Scott.
mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)because they all want one. I want mine, but don't want anyone else to have anything is the teabagger motto.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)the democratic vote. (actually the 1st was a 5- or 6-way, but the other independent runs only picked up a couple percent).
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)LePage, like Harper, has never received a majority of the popular vote. Between them they've won a total of five elections, each with a plurality short of a majority, because the voters opposed to them divided their votes among different candidates.
George II
(67,782 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)And congratulations on having elected Obama!
George II
(67,782 posts)I live in CT, where we now have five Congressmen, all Democrats, two Democratic Senators, all state-wide offices are Democratic (Governor down to Secy of the State) AND big Democratic majorities in both houses.
We get a shit-load of snow, but it's still a great place to live!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Love his books. My favorites are The Shining, The Stand and It.
So nice to know that all rich people aren't greedy damn randian thieves!
The teabag puke Governor of Maine would make a great demon from the lowest pit of HELL is your next book Mr King!
elias49
(4,259 posts)but IMO, he was too restrained. A-holes need to be called out, strongly.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I love Stephen King, his books and his political philosophy.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Paladin
(28,257 posts)Thank you Stephen King, for those well-crafted words.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)vast popularity and genre associations. I am a constant reader.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)That's why they are always cutting taxes for the rich yet never cut back on government services such as: Defense Department, Police weapons, civil and corporate court services, the FDIC (started by FDR), and tax loopholes, write offs and havens, subsidies to only very big farms and corporations. Because these all benefit the uber rich much more than they benefit the 99%.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Sadly, this is a belief that is not held by enough people on whom fortune has smiled
Divernan
(15,480 posts)http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/19/teabagger-gov-goes-after-maines-favorite-son-stephen-king-responds-brilliantly/
Stardust
(3,894 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts). . . send Cujo over the visit the governor.
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Maybe the Crimson King or Pennywise or something.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)to inflict some misery ....
jopacaco
(133 posts)Stephen King gives so much money to support the area. Most of it he does quietly, without any fanfare. He is a great example of what rich citizens should do to support the community. He has a local liberal talk radio station that is very good. I had always heard that Stephen moved to Florida in the winter because of health issues after his horrible accident. A fall on ice could be disastrous. LePage is a mean spirited fool who has no idea what he is talking about and doesn't bother to find out. He is an embarrassment.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)In "On Writing" he wrote that he had owned a winter home in Florida for some time and usually spends half the year there.
Divernan
(15,480 posts)I know many, many retired people from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota,with far less wealth than King who have winter residences in Florida or South Carolina. They're called snowbirds. What's unusual about King, given the level of his wealth, is that he is not wintering in someplace with the One Percenters, like St. Barth's or Nevis.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)His is a rags-to-riches story, and it is good to see he hasn't forgotten where he came from.
Though he'd probably throttle me with a length of instrument cable for ending a sentence with a preposition.
And of all the states in the union, Maine is my favorite by far.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)They make shit up and vomit it out. They do NOT care if it's a lie.
peacefreak
(2,939 posts)His wife owns a home in Florida. He should be more careful who he calls out. Stephen & Tabitha King have done many things to improve life in Maine for its residents. On the other hand, LePage has done many things to undermine the safety & well being of my neighbors & friends.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)Beautiful State. Wonderful People. My younger daughter went to USM and played hockey there.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)worked their hearts and souls out to unseat LePage, so it was really a treat to send this to them. Stephen King would make a great governor, wouldn't he? What a great attitude!
K&R
Divernan
(15,480 posts)King is a staunch Democrat and a confirmed liberal.
King has simultaneously endorsed Obama and blasted the conservatives that hate him. Truly, the amount of contempt and bile sent Obamas way during the 2012 election is staggering and King worried that someone may try to assassinate him.
King hates conservatives like Glenn Beck, Bill OReilly and the Tea Party. Beck, according to King is Satans younger brother, while OReilly is Satans older, mentally challenged brother.7
Concerned about corporate greed, money in politics, and budgetary issues in the United States, King sided with ultra-liberal members of the Occupy movement in asking for higher taxes on the rich, saying:
As a rich person, I pay 28% taxes. What I want to ask you is, why dont I pay 50%? Why is everybody in my bracket not paying 50%? The Republicans will say, from John Boehner to Mitch McConnell to Rick Scott, that we cant do that because, if we tax guys like me, there wont be any jobs. Its bull! Its total bull!
http://hollowverse.com/stephen-king/
spanone
(135,832 posts)tclambert
(11,086 posts)one with a suspiciously similar name: "LePiglia felt something bite him in the butt. Not a big bite. Just a nip. Then he felt another. In a minute, the tiny demons were nibbling him all over. He swatted at them to no avail. Soon he was covered in blood, and in places, he could see his own bones showing where multiple bites had dug down deep. He tried to run, but a few strategically placed bites to his Achilles' tendons left him lame. He collapsed to the ground. He tried to crawl away, but they were at him now in a swarm, a feeding frenzy of tiny, invisible, voracious creatures. He feebly waved a hand in the air. It was the hand of a skeleton, all the meat torn away. He wondered how they could eat so much of him and yet leave him alive. They must have meant to do it, carefully avoiding anything vital, 'Eat my eyes!' he begged them, or would have if his tongue wasn't half gone.
"As quickly as the attack had started, it ended. The saliva of the piranha demons must have contained instant clotting factors because LePiglia didn't bleed to death, even when reduced to a twitching pile of bones. A fibula and one foot had fallen off. LePiglia stared at them. They looked so clean. When he heard the sirens approaching, he thought, 'No, no, no. Don't try to save me. Let me die. Please, let me die.' But the EMS techs followed their training and got him to the hospital where he lingered another six days."
Lars39
(26,109 posts)dolphinsandtuna
(231 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)Tabitha King is also an author.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)dolphinsandtuna
(231 posts)samsingh
(17,598 posts)Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)that the 1 percent are the ones who want everything fee and handed to the on a silver platter too.
MANative
(4,112 posts)less enamored of his writing because, although I think he's incredibly skilled and talented, I've never been a fan of the horror genre. I don't watch horror movies either. They give me the heebee jeebies. Not a fan of being scared as "entertainment." I did like his "Under the Dome" which was a little creepy, but not full-blown horror. I keep sampling his work to find things that don't freak me out! LOL
Skittles
(153,160 posts)the move Stand by Me was based on that.....not a horror story but incredibly well done
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were In your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.
― Stephen King, The Body
MANative
(4,112 posts)I loved "Stand by Me" and didn't realize King's connection to it.
mantis49
(813 posts)It also contains Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, from which the movie "Shawshank Redemption" was made. Well worth your time to read all four novellas!
MANative
(4,112 posts)I'll be looking for it this weekend!
Skittles
(153,160 posts)EVERYONE needs to speak out about these thieving repuke clowns
Cha
(297,237 posts)would like it!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026384519#post63
Mahalo for making it an OP, kpete~
MADem
(135,425 posts)Mr. King has the coolest gate on his Bangor home--it has gargoyles and spiderwebs and bats on it, IIRC....some very nice ironwork.
EOM
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)we pay for a civil society and the greater good. To some that's socialism while to others it's normal.
bedazzled
(1,761 posts)my favorite book is the stand - unedited, of course.
favorite short story is the mist. they made a pretty acceptable movie out of it, until they changed they ending and ruined it completely...
Zorra
(27,670 posts)I don't know of anyone who has ever explored the realms of human consciousness and imagination as thoroughly as Stephen King has.
Conversely, republicans have built a massive wall of deluesion and fear between themselves, and consciousness and imagination.
Republican's thoughts are based in and on delusions and myth that they believe are true. If this was not so, they would not be republicans.
If you present them with stone cold facts, the delusions that are the foundations of their thought processes and belief systems will not allow them to accept these facts. They are lost in the illusions of the maze that is their consciousness, and only a very small percentage find their way out of the maze. Consequently, they have to continually lie to themselves and others in order to quell the fear of the dark delusions in which they exist.
They literally live in their own dark fairy tale, and the only moral of the story is that their entire existence is a matrix maze of hopeless futility based in lies, deception.
Conservatives are destructive and dangerous, and the history of conservative humans is the history of human evil, and the monstrous violent atrocities committed against other human beings since the dawn of human consciousness.
Like Stephen King said, they are full of the stuff that makes the grass grow green, and this stuff becomes a deadly infection when it invades human consciousness.