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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumStephen King: Maine Governor Is A ‘Bigot, A Homophobe, And A Racist’
King, who is a longtime Maine resident, sent the tweet after the governor used a homophobic slur against a Democratic lawmaker because he believed the man had called him a racist.
Earlier in the week, LePage said he keeps a binder filled with mugshots of everyone who had been arrested for dealing drugs in the state, and that more than 90 percent of the people in it were black or Hispanic. Ninety-five percent of Maine residents are white, according to U.S. Census data.
On Friday, the governor denied that police were engaging in racial profiling in arrests for drug dealing, and called people of color and Hispanics the enemy.
Last year, LePage accused King of leaving the state to avoid taxes ― a claim that wasnt true. King said that LePage should man up and apologize to him, but the governor refused.
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Stephen King: Maine Governor Is A ‘Bigot, A Homophobe, And A Racist’ (Original Post)
left-of-center2012
Aug 2016
OP
You have a right to your opinion, but he gets good reviews and is crying all the way to the bank.
RBInMaine
Aug 2016
#3
Some of his work was below par. If horror isn't your thing then just say so.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Aug 2016
#8
brucefan
(1,549 posts)1. uh-oh
Mr. King's gonna get a nasty voicemail.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)2. I think his books suck, but I agree with him.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)3. You have a right to your opinion, but he gets good reviews and is crying all the way to the bank.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)4. I know.
Many, many people like his sucky books. His sucky books get made into sucky movies. He earns millions and millions of sucky dollars. He seems like a decent guy, so good for him.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)5. Well, you know what they say about opinions ...
They're like ____. Everybody has one.
Response to HassleCat (Reply #4)
R. Daneel Olivaw This message was self-deleted by its author.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)8. Some of his work was below par. If horror isn't your thing then just say so.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)11. Horror is not my thing.
If it were, I don't think I would go for the King variety. "Night of the Living Dead" would be more my style.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)13. NofLD is movie genre, not lit.
So what do you have against Steven King then?
shenmue
(38,506 posts)6. Preach it!
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)9. I sense a new King novel will be out soon with a character that's a governor and an asshole
and some very, very bad things happen to him.
Submariner
(12,504 posts)10. LePage had "North Woods Law" TV program cancelled too
The jerk off also cancelled one of my favorite TV shows.
http://mpbn.net/post/what-ended-north-woods-law-maine#stream/0
It was a good program for showing off Maine's outdoor resources.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)12. Didn't know that
I loved NWL.