# Tea-Partiest LePage suppresses labor union history **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiest-lepage-suppresses-labor-union-history/576071 "2011-03-26T17:50:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiest-lepage-suppresses-labor-union-history/576071/1 "2011-03-26T17:50:22Z")
At [Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-j-kaye/maine-governor-paul-lepag_b_840817.html) (among other news sources) we learn that > [@](#): > > … [Maine Governor Paul] LePage not only has set out … to weaken, if not destroy, public employee unions and workers’ rights. LePage also has taken steps to “neutral[ize]” American history. He has ordered both the removal of a labor history mural from the walls of the state’s Department of Labor Building and the renaming of its conference rooms so that they no longer bear those of 1960s farm-worker leader César Chavez, 1920s labor activist Rose Schneiderman, and President Franklin Roosevelt’s Labor Secretary Frances Perkins (the first woman ever to hold a Cabinet-level appointment). > > Three cheers for Governor LePage! Instead of denying what he’s up to, he reveals all. He wants to wipe the walls of government clean of the progressive story of what has made America prosperous and ever more free, equal, and democratic. He wants a history that makes the rich and the right comfortable, happy, and ready to roll. (Noting that the mural was approved during the Bush Administration, rumors that American politics might be lurching back towards a rational balance seem exaggerated.) ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiest-lepage-suppresses-labor-union-history/576071/2 "2011-03-26T19:46:10Z")
So long as the memory of the struggle remains in the hearts of American workers and children, together with a unifying democratic determination to achieve a fair society where every person determines the political process and shares the fruits of labour equally., such the destruction of such symbols affects nothing. Or they may just watch American Idol. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiest-lepage-suppresses-labor-union-history/576071/3 "2011-03-26T19:57:04Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![frawkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@frawkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frawkin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-partiest-lepage-suppresses-labor-union-history/576071/4 "2011-03-27T12:52:10Z")
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