{"id":3862,"date":"2011-01-15T11:22:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T19:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2011-01-15T11:22:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T19:22:39","slug":"republican-governor-to-black-america-kiss-my-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/republican-governor-to-black-america-kiss-my-butt\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Governor to Black America: &quot;Kiss My Butt!&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Party is an equal opportunity enterprise.&#160; If any group opposes their agenda to eliminate the middle class and establish one party rule, they will turn the full weight of their bigotry on that group and, if it happens to be a racial minority, they have plenty of racism to go around.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"15lepage\" border=\"0\" alt=\"15lepage\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/15lepage.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"381\" \/>Maine\u2019s tea party-backed Gov. Paul LePage (R) has gone from telling President Obama to \u201cgo to hell [Faux Noise delinked]\u201d to telling the NAACP to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/wgme.com\/newsroom\/top_stories\/videos\/wgme_vid_6490.shtml?wap=0&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">kiss my butt<\/a>,\u201d after the storied civil rights organization criticized LePage for declining invitations to attend events honoring Martin Luther King Day. The NAACP had invited LePage to events in Portland and Bangor, but a spokesman for the governor said he \u201calready has personal and professional commitments scheduled for Monday.\u201d \u201cWe don\u2019t want to misinterpret his intention, but the message we\u2019re getting is that we\u2019re not welcome and we\u2019re not part of the Maine he\u2019s preparing to lead,\u201d said local NAACP state director Rachel Talbot Ross. LePage fired back at the group\u2019s chiding, telling WGME News 13 that the NAACP is just a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/wgme.com\/newsroom\/top_stories\/videos\/wgme_vid_6490.shtml?wap=0&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">special interest group<\/a>\u201d that can \u201ckiss my butt\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/01\/14\/lepage-naacp-butt-kis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now I\u2019m not claiming that LaPage has a particular hatred for black people.&#160; I trust he\u2019s equally bigoted against Latinos, Native Americans, LGBT people, and anyone else who refuses to goose-step with him.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party is an equal opportunity enterprise.&#160; If any group opposes their agenda to eliminate the middle class and establish one party rule, they will turn the full weight of their bigotry on that group and, if it happens to be a racial minority, they have plenty of racism to go around. Maine\u2019s tea <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/republican-governor-to-black-america-kiss-my-butt\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}