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TexasTowelie

(117,297 posts)
Sat Apr 15, 2017, 03:54 AM Apr 2017

Paul LePage not sure about Senate run or Susan Collins for governor

Moments after declaring that he didn’t think he would make a good legislator, Gov. Paul LePage told a radio station Thursday that he is “seriously considering” taking on U.S. Sen. Angus King in 2018.

LePage told the Portland-based WGAN that he’s not interested in retiring or taking a desk job with the Trump administration, but might be open to serving as an ambassador after he leaves office next year.

The governor also said he’s not sure U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is the right person to succeed him because “I don’t know her well enough to know if she can do the job” as chief executive officer of the state.

He said he “would not endorse her" until he sees how she does on the campaign trail if Collins opts to run for Maine’s top job next year. There are “many people in Maine” who have the necessary skills to take on the position, LePage said.

Read more: http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2017/04/13/paul-lepage-not-sure-about-senate-run-or-susan-collins-governor/2111512

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Paul LePage not sure about Senate run or Susan Collins for governor (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2017 OP
The "glorious" Paul LePage for senate? MarianJack Apr 2017 #1

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)
1. The "glorious" Paul LePage for senate?
Sat Apr 15, 2017, 08:28 AM
Apr 2017

We'll know for sure that he IS running when Eliot Cutler announces that HE is runnung. Also, if we listen closely, the moment after LePage announces, we'll be hearing champaign corks popping in Angus King's home and office.

As far as Collins goes, after 8 catastrophic years of national embarrassment LePage, the last thing we need in the Blaine House is a governor with a spine of oatmeal like her!

Just my 2 cents, and quite possibly overpriced at that!

PEACE!

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