Where exactly was Maine Governor Paul LePage when the other 50+ NFL players were arrested for domestic violence in the last decade?
Exactly, he is just a politician making a politician style statement to get his name in the news and try to win over some conservatives. Here is what he had to say via the Sporting News.
“Taking thugs and wife-beaters off the field may be bad for business, but you are playing games with people’s lives,” said LePage.
In a radio interview last week, LePage said he will boycott the league and argued that Rice should have received a three-year suspension. He added: “As a matter of fact, the team should have taken him out in the back shed and taken care of him.”
“You have the power to send a very strong message to a national audience that his behavior will not be tolerated.”
Goodell should do more and the CBA needs to be revamped in a way popping a molly is treated isn’t punished more harshly than abusing your spouse.
Of course, Governor LePage hands aren’t clean either, he likes playing games with people lives as well as you can see from Citizens Ethics.
The first-term governor packed his administration with lobbyists and used his office to promote their environmental-deregulation agenda, and allegedly went so far as to fire a state employee who testified in favor of policies the administration opposed.
Gov. LePage also attempted to gut his state’s open records act, and is under investigation by the federal government for trying to bully employees of the state Department of Labor into deciding more cases in favor of business.
Sounds like a swell guy.