The labor mural as it hung in the Maine Dept. of Labor last March.
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage has a new explanation for why a mural depicting labor scenes was removed from a Maine state office last March.
LePage told Brian Williams of NBC News that his decision to remove the artwork from the Department of Labor's headquarters had nothing to do with the painting's pro-labor content, as he's said before.
LePage said Monday he ordered the mural removed and locked away because the $60,000 that the state spent on it came from a fund dedicated to providing benefits to unemployed workers.
Maine Today Media says the governor made the comments during an education summit hosted by NBC in New York.
LePage has said previously that he ordered the mural removed to show that Maine looks at employees and employers equally.
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. . . but one has to admit, that mural is visually obtrusive and lacks artistic pulchritude. While it was taken down for spurious reasons by an impetuous, bombastic LeRage, who can honestly say the piece is pleasant to look at? I'm all for a message in art, but that mural makes the room (in the photos) look like a Twilight Zone episode.
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Wanna buy a bridge?
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He also says he will put back the mural if they pay back the $60,000. Who is they? And if the state paid for the mural why does the federal government want their money back? And why are the people who paid out the money saying that no unemployment funds were used? Sounds like somebody was doing a lot of tap dancing.
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LePage seems to think up one excuse after another when his alleged reasons don't seem to fit. This only tells us that this was all a lie to begin with. This man continues to embarrass us all.
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Apparently taliban paul lies so much, he can't keep them straight.
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