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Maine Gov. Paul LePage blamed a reporter for his fiery outburst to a state lawmaker last week and vowed never to speak with the press again.
LePage left an obscenity-laced voicemail on Rep. Drew Gattine’s phone. He ordered Gattine to “prove that I’m a racist” and warned “I am after you.”
Speaking to reporters later, LePage expressed his desire to challenge the “snot-nosed little guy” to a duel in which he would point a firearm “right between his eyes.”
LePage met with Gattine on Wednesday morning and apologized to the state legislator and Maine.
“I think that the reporter who put the mic in my face owes an apology,” LePage told reporters. “He said I made racially comments. Maybe, in my mind, it is semantics.”
LePage conceded that “because race bothers me, because I try to help minorities. I will not resign, though.”
What he said he will do, however, is stop speaking to the media.
“I will no longer speak to the press ever again after today,” LePage said, prompting laughter from reporters. “And I’m serious. Everything will be put in writing. I am tired of being caught, the gotcha moments.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/paul-lepage-vows-never-speak-media-227589