While we're on the subject of corrections, that's welfare rolls.

LePage is similar to Trump in the one sense that he speaks out without apology and with no sanction of the left's demands for obsequiousness to their ideology and slogans. The media has been constantly and intensively smearing him for it since the campaign for his first election. For all their 'moral' outrage, they never quote him in entirety or in context. They can't afford to let people hear what he actually says and why. Instead they try to make him look like a buffoon and shriek with a claimed moral and intellectual superiority. The Republican establishment cowers and LePage keeps going despite all of it.

Wow...someone is awake in the United States.

The left-handed critics can't see beyond their navels. They want feel-good gratification which they can turn into support. Never mind if it's good or bad for the state. In reality all it's about is if it is good or bad for them.

Good progress to reforming welfare entitlement!

Maine reminds me of Vermont, but with a coast tourism and real businesses keeping them more afloat.

Change doesn't happen all at once. Every little bit helps. It didn't get run down in a day, it won't rebuild in a day.

Le Page was re-elected and is in his second term as governor, but Maine is a very leftist state. After being ruled by progressives for over 30 years enough people, especially with a big block from the rural areas, were fed up enough to elect him in three way races, but there has been harassment through law suits, resistance in the legislature, and constant smears in the media.

The state is not in good condition, with business, investment, and people having been driven out of the state for decades. Private property rights are especially still under attack by the viros. In particular there is the all too common problem of an urban/suburban majority ruling over a rural minority and beleaguered wood products industry spread out across the state. Calling current events "catching a reform vision" is an overstatement. The establishment wants to go back to progressive deterioration.

Maine is a small state in population (only a few million despite the large land area) tucked away in the northeastern corner of the country and few people elsewhere know what has been going on. If you want to see how bad things can get with progressives running at state look at what has happened to Maine.

Thanks for the correction.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage is not a "she".

He has also embarked on a plan to lower and eventually eliminate the income tax, but spending and total taxes have been increasing.

The viros are fit to be tied because he has slowed their land use controls and opposes a new National Park being pushed to take private land in the Maine woods http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-a...