{"id":11827,"date":"2016-08-30T17:11:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11827"},"modified":"2016-08-30T17:10:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:10:24","slug":"the-ballad-of-paul-lepage-bradcast-8302016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11827","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of Paul LePage: ‘BradCast’ 8\/30\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, Maine’s Republican Governor Paul LePage is melting down. [Audio link posted below.<\/i>]\n

We’ve been reporting on the two-term, ‘Tea Party’ dimwit for years, describing him variously as both the nation’s dumbest Governor<\/a> and the worst in history<\/a>. But now, at the seeming climax of a months-long saga concerning racist comments<\/a> by LePage, a threatening and obscene voicemail<\/a> he recently left for a Democratic state lawmaker, comments about shooting<\/a> that lawmaker in the head and, this week, an apparent emergency intervention<\/a> by GOP state legislators, the possibility of resignation<\/a> — or, perhaps, mental breakdown — is seeming likelier by the minute.<\/p>\n

We cover that insane story today, how this loon became a two-term Governor in the first place in an otherwise not-insane state (hint: you can thank third party challengers), and how, even after all of the years<\/i> of LePage’s various embarrassments, Donald Trump has said<\/a> this month that he’d be delighted<\/i> to consider the Maine Governor for a role in his White House cabinet!<\/p>\n

Then, Apple owes<\/a> $14.5B in back taxes in Europe, but it could cost<\/a> the U.S.; One county official in Colorado is standing up<\/a> to a major coal company in bankruptcy to force them to pay what they owe in taxes; Desi Doyen joins us for an unusually uplifting Green News Report<\/i><\/a>; and, finally, closing the circle on today’s show, how some residents of an impoverished area of Maine (LePage voters, no doubt) tried to block<\/a> a land grant and millions of dollars to the local community in order to prevent President Obama from establishing a new national monument<\/a> in that portion of the Maine North Woods…<\/p>\n

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On today’s BradCast, Maine’s Republican Governor Paul LePage is melting down. [Audio link posted below.] We’ve been reporting on the two-term, ‘Tea Party’ dimwit for years, describing him variously as both the nation’s dumbest Governor and the worst in history. But now, at the seeming climax of a months-long saga concerning racist comments by LePage, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[505,694,239,89,675,21,499,37,479,390,200,841,419,226,703,477,350,677,300,45],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea-party","category-apple","category-barack-obama","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-california","category-coal","category-colorado","category-donald-trump","category-economy","category-environment","category-eu","category-hawaii","category-hillary-clinton","category-ireland","category-kpfk","category-maine","category-paul-lepage","category-republicans","category-west-virginia","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}