Maine Governor Paul LePage has a long history of saying things that ruffle the feathers of his political opponents and on Friday he was once again apologizing for one of those remarks, according to USA Today.
In an interview on Thursday LePage vented his frustrations over a contentious battle with the state Legislature over the budget by saying that Democrat Sen. Troy Jackson "claims to be for the people, but he's the first one to give it to the people without providing Vaseline," according to USA Today.
That wasn't all LePage had to say about Jackson either.
"This man is a bad person," LePage said. "He doesn't only have no brains. He has a black heart and so does leadership upstairs."
LePage, who once compared the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, apologized for his comments about Jackson but will not apologize to the Democratic Senator, according to the Associated Press.
LePage also issued an apology to loggers in the state of Maine for lumping them in with some of the comments that he had made about Jackson, who is a logger. LePage had said that "people like Jackson ought to go back in the woods and cut trees and let somebody with a brain come down here and do some work," according to the Associated Press.
The controversial governor who told the NAACP to "kiss my butt" is apparently considering abandoning his bid for reelection in 2014 to run for Congress instead. Or at least LePage said he was considering it once he heard that Rep. Mike Michaud might be making a gubernatorial run.
"I'm considering running for Mike Michaud's seat if you want to know the truth because it can't be any worse in Washington than it is here," LePage told the Portland Press Herald. "Everything's on the table. Retirement, social security, running Congress, maybe going back to Marden's to stock shelves, who knows. I don't take myself as seriously as all you do."
