[font face=Serif]Posted on April 18, 2013 by Mike Tipping
[font size=5]LePage Spins Windmill Conspiracy Theory[/font]
[font size=3]Governor LePage has a habit of using false anecdotes to back up his policy positions. It started during his campaign and has continued throughout his time in office. He routinely makes up regulations that don’t exist
http://www.mpbn.net/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3478/ItemId/13295/Default.aspx , conversations that never happened
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/city/2011/12/16/forbes-lepage-welfare-quotes-inaccurate/1128806 and discriminatory practices that have never occurred
http://www.kjonline.com/news/lepages-remark-about-admissions-old-news-is-no-news_2012-08-03.html . LePage has repeated some of these claims even after they have been proven to be false.
What these lies have in common is that they all seem designed to highlight some extreme example of what LePage sees as wrong with the world and justify his policy prescriptions. If any of them were true, they would be very compelling.
LePage added a new false anecdote to his repertoire on Tuesday as he spoke to the Skowhegan Area Chamber of Commerce
http://thetippingpoint.bangordailynews.com/2013/04/17/state-politics/lepage-next-walker/ . At the end of long rant against the wind power industry, filled with claims that the renewable resource doesn’t create jobs and leads to higher electricity rates, LePage took aim at one wind turbine in particular.
“Now, to add insult to injury, The University of Maine, Presque Isle – anybody here been up there to see that damn windmill in the back yard? Guess what, if it’s not blowing wind outside and they have somebody visiting the campus, they have a little electric motor that turns the blades. I’m serious. They have an electric motor so that they can show people wind power works. Unbelievable. And that’s the government that you have here in the state of Maine,” said LePage.
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