Maine Governor: These Traffickers (D-Money, Shifty...) Impregnate Young White Girls

[PastTense]

Maine Gov. Paul LePage made a racist claim about his state’s heroin epidemic on Wednesday, alleging men with nicknames like “D-Money” are coming from cities to sell heroin and “impregnate” Maine’s white women.

During a town hall meeting in Bridgton, Maine, LePage was asked how he plans to address the state’s heroin epidemic. The first step, LePage said, is beefing up enforcement.

“Now the traffickers … These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty, these types of guys. They come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, and they go back home,” LePage said. "Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave…

Paul LePage Makes Racist Claim About Drug Dealers Named D-Money Getting White...

Well, we all know New York is Sin City, but I was sort of surprised about Connecticut.

[El_Kabong]

Now the traffickers … These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty, these types of guys. They come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, and they go back home," LePage said. "Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave…

Sounds like the Governor urgently needs to address the issue of why so many Maine women apparently prefer visiting drug dealers to the local crop of eligible males.

[Channing_Idaho_Banks]

@El_Kabong

Sounds like the Governor urgently needs to address the issue of why so many Maine women apparently prefer visiting drug dealers to the local crop of eligible males.

You mean it’s not the Heroin?

[muldoonthief]

@El_Kabong

Sounds like the Governor urgently needs to address the issue of why so many Maine women apparently prefer visiting drug dealers to the local crop of eligible males.

Here’s the problem.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

So are you in favor of young white girls getting impregnated by drug dealers?

[lost4life]

D-Money sounds like a nickname from the 80s. Shifty sounds like one from the 30s.

Is it against the law to impregnate white girls? Cause I sure did.

[piepiepie]

Does the good Governor of Maine not know that black women are God? How dare he insinuate that those totally not fictional black men impregnate anyone besides black women! As a black woman, I could not believe my melanated eyes and organs when I read that.

[Czarcasm]

@lost4life

D-Money sounds like a nickname from the 80s. Shifty sounds like one from the 30s.

Is it against the law to impregnate white girls? Cause I sure did.

I, too, impregnated a white girl once. Where do I go to get my cool nickname?

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

If you didn’t do it in Maine it doesn’t count. LePage doesn’t care if you knock up white girls in Connecticut, apparently.

[Valgard]

@Czarcasm

I, too, impregnated a white girl once. Where do I go to get my cool nickname?

C-Jism?

[El_Kabong]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

So are you in favor of young white girls getting impregnated by drug dealers?

Well, according to Hizzonor the governor, the young white girls sure are.

[El_Kabong]

@Valgard

C-Jism?

Czar-Money gets my vote.

[Procrustus]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

So are you in favor of young white girls getting impregnated by drug dealers?

Better than getting impregnated by drug users I suppose. At least the dealers have an entrepreneur spirit.

[Maus_Magill]

We secretly replaced the Governor’s dog whistle with a referee’s whistle. Let’s see if he notices.

@Czarcasm

I, too, impregnated a white girl once. Where do I go to get my cool nickname?

I did, too. Three times. My cool nickname is “Daddy.” Actually, twelve years down the line, is now “What?”.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@Procrustus

Better than getting impregnated by drug users I suppose. At least the dealers have an entrepreneur spirit.

Yeah, but they’re out of state. Maybe LePage is just concerned because long-distance relationships never work out.

[MOIDALIZE]

shakes head

I always knew that Shifty was up to no good.

[Merneith]

LePage is going with the time-honored Chickenshit Defense:

Paul LePage Insists His Drug Remarks Weren't Racist Because 'Maine Is...

LePage, however, said Friday that his remarks had nothing to do with race.

“I tried to explain that Maine is essentially all white,” he said. “I should have said ‘Maine women.’”

According to the Census Bureau, Maine is 95 percent white, which is a far higher percentage than the country at large.

LePage also said he didn’t intend to imply that people with names like “Smoothie” were black.

“I never said anything about white or black on traffickers. … What are they, black? I don’t know. I just read the names,” he said.

LePage, as usual, also went after the media for focusing on his comments instead of the broader heroin crisis. He said they were goaded by blogs into covering his remarks.

“You are in the back pocket of the Maine bloggers. Shame on you. Shame, shame, shame,” he said.

Yeah, it’s “Maine Bloggers” who are the real bad guys here, imagining race where poor, poor, Tom LePage - pure as the driven snow! - made an honest remark about the heroin dealers besieging his womenfolk.

[Little_Nemo]

“Shame on you for decoding my codewords.”

[Lobohan]

Smoothie: We must resupply with heroin. I have run out.
D-Money: We cannot yet go. For I first must thrust my engorged ghetto-member into yonder white bootie!
White Girl: Zounds! Such a member. Fill me with baby and go!

…and scene.

[Enderw24]

I mean, to be fair, Smoothie could easily be a Thai nickname. Who wouldn’t want to suck on his tapioca balls?