Some people seem to think that the critics of Gov. Paul LePage are preventing him from doing his job and cry out, “Let him do his job.”

On May 17, the people of Maine saw him on television and in the local newspapers with a big smile on his face as he was signing the health insurance overhaul bill, LD 1333 (a bill that, incidentally, was shoved down the throats of the legislators who had little time to reflect on it before it was voted on).

The street kid of yesteryear who spent Halloween bullying little children to steal their candy has now bullied the Legislature to support a bill that favors the private interests of the insurance industry at the expense of the vulnerable sick and elderly people of Maine.

Interestingly, I did not see his smile nor his signature when the Legislature voted to ban BPA in baby bottles, and I don’t see him bullying the Legislature to push his renewable energy cap plan that could jeopardize some businesses.

LePage, who rose from rags to riches, set a wonderful example of courage and determination to get where he is, but seeing him, as governor, acting as a bully to get what he wants, is not what Maine needs for a governor, and not the model children need to imitate.

That is not the kind of job being done by its governor that Maine needs.

Donald LaBranche, Lewiston