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Maine Gov. LePage rails against media bias against him

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Maine Gov. Paul LePage speaks during a conference of New England's governors and eastern Canada's premiers to discuss closer regional collaboration, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Paul LePage racial heroin dealing claims for Maine not even close: FBI data

By David Sharp - Associated Press

Maine Gov. Paul LePage speaks during a conference of New England's governors and eastern Canada's premiers to discuss closer regional collaboration, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Paul LePage, Maine governor, says he plans to seek ‘spiritual guidance’

By Marina Villeneuve - Associated Press

Republican Gov. Paul LePage delivers his inauguration address in Augusta, Maine, in this Jan. 7, 2015, file photo. LePage said out-of-state drug dealers are impregnating "young white" girls, and he was quickly derided by critics on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Paul LePage blasts ‘socialist c—-sucker’ after lawmaker claims Maine governor racist

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Maine Gov. Paul LePage speaks at a news conference at the State House, in Augusta, Maine, in this Jan. 8, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Paul LePage, Maine governor, leaves obscene tirade on lawmaker’s voicemail

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FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2016 file photo, Maine Gov. Paul LePage speaks at a news conference at the State House, in Augusta, Maine. A federal judge on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, dismissed a lawsuit accusing LePage of using blackmail to force a charter school operator to rescind a job offer to a political opponent in a flap that roiled the Legislature and led to an impeachment effort. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

ED FEULNER: Welfare to work is pulling people from poverty

By Ed Feulner

Maine Gov. Paul LePage delivers a keynote address at the Maine GOP convention in Bangor, Maine, Saturday, April 23, 2016. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via AP) ** FILE **

Paul LePage, Maine governor, won’t apologize for comment about Indians

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Maine Gov. Paul LePage speaks at a news conference at the State House, in Augusta, Maine, in this Jan. 8, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine House debates Paul LePage impeachment investigation

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Maine Gov. Paul LePage speaks at a news conference at the State House, in Augusta, Maine, in this Jan. 8, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Some Maine Democrats to press for impeachment of Gov. LePage

By DAVID SHARP - Associated Press

Democratic presidential hopeful former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses Asian American and Pacific Islander supporters in San Gabriel, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. Asian Americans have received relatively scant attention in the Republican and Democratic primaries. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Clinton campaign slams Paul LePage, Maine governor, for ‘racist rants’ about drug dealers

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Republican Gov. Paul LePage delivers his inauguration address in Augusta, Maine, in this Jan. 7, 2015, file photo. LePage said out-of-state drug dealers are impregnating "young white" girls, and he was quickly derided by critics on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Paul LePage, Maine governor, calls ‘young, white girls’ comment a ‘slip-up’

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Jan. 7, 2015 file photo, Republican Gov. Paul LePage delivers his inauguration address in Augusta, Maine. LePage and first lady Ann LePage are throwing their support behind a program that helps to preserve the living histories of veterans. The Bureau of Veterans Services created the Maine Veterans Legacy Project with the mission of collecting first-person accounts of those who served in the U.S. military. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, file)

Democrats still want to punish LePage, but other issues loom

By DAVID SHARP - Associated Press

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (left) speaks to reporters while visiting C&L Aviation with Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Aug. 12, 2014, in Bangor, Maine. Christie returned to Maine to campaign for LePage's re-election campaign. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Paul LePage, Maine governor, backs Chris Christie’s presidential bid

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Gov. Paul LePage delivers his State of the State address to the Legislature at the Statehouse in Augusta, Maine, in this Feb. 3, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Joel Page, File)

Paul LePage, Maine governor, jokes that he’d like to shoot political cartoonist

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Republican Gov. Paul LePage abruptly ended a town hall meeting Thursday night after Joanne Twomey, former Democratic mayor of Biddeford, hurled a jar of Vaseline toward him. (YouTube)

Joanne Twomey, former Democratic mayor, hurls jar of Vaseline at Maine Gov. Paul LePage

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 7, 2012, file photo, novelist Stephen King speaks to creative writing students at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell in Lowell, Mass. King says he still lives in Maine, and he insists that Gov. Paul LePage's claim that he has moved from the state is inaccurate. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Stephen King to Paul LePage, Republican governor: ‘Man up and apologize’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Gov. Paul LePage, with his wife Ann LePage, celebrates his re-election bid at his election night party, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Lewiston, Maine. LePage defeated Democrat Mike Michaud and independent Eliot Cutler. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

EDITORIAL: Maine’s Gov. LePage leads way on food stamp reform

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Kaci Hickox, a nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa, and boyfriend Ted Wilbur take questions from the media outside her home in Fort Kent, Maine on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014. Hickox, the first person forced into New Jersey's mandatory quarantine for people arriving at the Newark airport from three West African countries, vowed to defy Maine's voluntary quarantine . (AP Photo/Portland Press Herald, Whitney Hayward)

Kaci Hickox wins in Ebola case: Judge rejects Maine’s bid to quarantine nurse

By Robert F. Bukaty - Associated Press

Nurse Kaci Hickox leaves her home on a rural road in Fort Kent, Maine, to take a bike ride with her boyfriend Ted Wilbur, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014. The couple went on an hour-long ride followed by a Maine State Trooper. State officials are going to court to keep Hickox in quarantine for the remainder of the 21-day incubation period for Ebola that ends on Nov. 10. Police are monitoring her, but can't detain her without a court order signed by a judge. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Paul LePage: Negotiations with Kaci Hickox for Ebola quarantine have failed

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sen. Mike Michaud speaks at rally, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, at Scarborough High School in Scarborough, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Angus King switches his support to Mike Michaud in Maine governor’s race

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times