# Maine Governor: These Traffickers (D-Money, Shifty...) Impregnate Young White Girls **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 8, 2016, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481 "2016-01-08T08:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/1 "2016-01-08T08:42:37Z")
> [@](#): > > 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...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-lepage-heroin_n_568ef013e4b0cad15e643549?utm_hp_ref=black-voices&ir=Black%2BVoices§ion=black-voices)** > > The GOP governor partially blamed Maine's heroin epidemic on men with nicknames like "D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty." Well, we all know New York is Sin City, but I was sort of surprised about Connecticut. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/2 "2016-01-08T14:20:39Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/3 "2016-01-08T14:27:39Z")
> [@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? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/4 "2016-01-08T14:30:32Z")
> [@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](http://wror.com/2015/11/25/men-from-maine-christmas-in-maine-skit-1/). ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/5 "2016-01-08T15:25:43Z")
So are you in favor of young white girls getting impregnated by drug dealers? ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/6 "2016-01-08T15:34:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![piepiepie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@piepiepie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/piepiepie)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/7 "2016-01-08T15:39:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/8 "2016-01-08T15:45:52Z")
> [@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? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/9 "2016-01-08T15:50:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/10 "2016-01-08T15:56:18Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I, too, impregnated a white girl once. Where do I go to get my cool nickname? C-Jism? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/11 "2016-01-08T16:02:42Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/12 "2016-01-08T16:04:02Z")
> [@Valgard](#): > > C-Jism? Czar-Money gets my vote. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/13 "2016-01-08T16:09:24Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/14 "2016-01-08T16:09:43Z")
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?”. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/15 "2016-01-08T16:15:07Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/16 "2016-01-08T16:17:16Z")
_shakes head_ I always knew that [Shifty](http://img.spokeo.com/public/900-600/shifty_shellshock_2004_05_14.jpg) was up to no good. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/17 "2016-01-08T16:55:55Z")
LePage is going with the time-honored Chickenshit Defense: > **[Paul LePage Insists His Drug Remarks Weren't Racist Because 'Maine Is...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-lepage-heroin_n_568fd373e4b0c8beacf6a626)** > > The governor said men with names like "D-Money" come to the state and "impregnate a young white girl before they leave." > [@](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/18 "2016-01-08T17:01:53Z")
“Shame on you for decoding my codewords.” ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/19 "2016-01-08T17:08:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481/20 "2016-01-08T17:09:47Z")
I mean, to be fair, Smoothie could easily be a Thai nickname. Who wouldn’t want to suck on his tapioca balls? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-these-traffickers-d-money-shifty-impregnate-young-white-girls/742481.md?page=2)