Maine governor and racist of record Paul LePage spoke at a town hall meeting in the city of Freeport on Tuesday night where he took the opportunity to opine about the threat of immigrants and asylum seekers who, according to him, have brought foreign diseases to our land.
“Asylum seekers — I think the biggest problem in our state — and I’ll explain that to you,” he says.
“Shame. Shame,” the crowd responded. [...]
“And what happens is you get hepatitis C, tuberculosis, AIDS, HIV, the ‘ziki fly,’ (sic) all these other foreign type of diseases that find a way to our land,” he says.
There's actually no such thing as a "ziki fly." The Zika virus is carried by mosquitoes.
None of the other diseases or afflictions he listed are "foreign."
Paul LePage obtained his degree in pathology by reading the back of a Cracker Jack box.
It's curious that LePage would say asylum seekers are the "biggest problem" in the state of Maine. Does that mean LePage is no longer overly concerned about the threat of Smoothie and D-Money? Is LePage no longer concerned that black drug dealers are impregnating Maine's white girls?