The human beach ball that is the governor of Maine, Paul LePage, has issued another veto this month. The bill in question was one that would have prohibited foreign loggers from coming into Maine to work on state owned land that is managed by the Department of Conservation. LePage vetoed the bill by somehow citing equal protection under the Constitution.
The problem with this veto is that LePage cannot hide his hatred of regulations. He’ll gladly cut all the trees down without creating a single job for Mainers. His veto will allow for Canadian loggers to come in at presumably lower wages than local loggers, while deforesting the entire state. There is no chance of LePage regulating how many Maine trees are cut down by foreign hands and shipped out just as quickly.
In a time when everyone is struggling, how can a man who is supposed to have our best interests in mind just give jobs away and send the forests to Kingdom Come? It’s easy for a man whose best friends are corporate assholes and money mongers. Eventually we’ll all have to take a long hard look at that dollar grubbing brute up in Augusta and wonder why we did this to ourselves. Good God, where will it end?
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