Paul R. LePage
The Public Record
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August 13, 2026
I’ve worried about payrolls. I’ve balanced budgets. I’ve hired people. I’ve fired people. It’s just part of what the world of business is all about.
— Paul R. LePage
When I became governor, my goal was to make government smaller, not bigger.
I wanted every small business to know one thing: Maine was open for business.
The Constitution is very clear, and I do not support any restrictions on the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
It’s so, so important that as your governor in the state of Maine, I fought for the Second Amendment,” LePage said, of the constitutional right to bear arms. “The Second Amendment is freedom. It’s all about our ability to move around and…
If it’s gonna go against the Second Amendment, there’s no compromise,” LePage said at the press conference. “The Constitution is very clear, and I do not support any restrictions on the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
JD Vance being here today is a warning shot to every fraudster, scam artist and corrupt bureaucrat protecting our broken system.
Way, way too close to Platner. Way too close to Bernie. Way too close to AOC. That whole gang.
As governor, I have witnessed far too many cases of the Federal Government's inability to quickly address problems facing citizens across Maine.
If they partner with the state, and the state has a major role to play, then I think governing at the local level is much better than governing from Washington.
The mechanism laid out in the bill are simply not the way to achieve the goal of keeping our waterfronts working.
Reducing taxes, improving the science that underlies fisheries management, eliminating a burdensome and unnecessary regulation on small business and fair trade policies are far more important.
the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing, and so there is conflict in regulations.
If it is land that is properly managed, it is valuable. If it is land that is just going to be put into preservation, it is dangerous.
Oh, absolutely. I believe that it is important to protect the culture of the United States. And this designation does not do that.
Nationally, the deferred spending on our parks and our monuments is in the billions of dollars. And that is what I fear.
I believe that this land is in Maine, and the Maine people ought to make the decision on how we are going to preserve it, how we are going to conserve it, and how we are going to use it.
The only ones that are concerned about it are the people here in Washington, not the people in Maine.
There's no denying that passing the bill would give thousands of small Maine businesses a real boost.
Passing this bill would give thousands of small Maine businesses a real boost. Federal policy now gives some out-of-state corporations an unfair advantage over other Maine retailers.





