Paul LePage Appoints Daughter To Administration Post

The Bangor Daily News:

AUGUSTA, Maine -- Gov.-elect Paul LePage has appointed his daughter, Lauren, to a staff position within the upper echelon of his administration, members of the LePage transition team said Wednesday.

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Comments

[Trueheart]

08:21 AM on 01/16/2011

I live in Maine. LePage's credibility will suffer for this decision. I watched his inauguration speech, and actually felt encouraged by what he had to say; especially about education. But right out of the gate, this horse takes a dump on the track, and shows us he ain't got the right stuff.

IMO these were the kinds of Mainers who helped elect him: Diehard, old-time entrenched Republicans, some old-line money and trust fund babies, and some working class and poor. Is that what people are calling the "Tea Party" nowadays???

LePage comes from a family with 18 kids. There was a lot of identification with that by a generational rural population which is familiar with having to struggle to survive. The old-line money folks who backed him have nothing in common with him or his values--except they think they will be able to tap the state's natural resources and make some bucks.

Putting your 22 year old daughter in a $41,000/yr entry level job is going to stick in the craws of people who live in a state where $46,000/yr is the median HOUSEHOLD income. What a dunce!

[TaylorRae]

01:28 PM on 01/15/2011

If she were any kind of respectful and dutiful daughter - the kind that I'm sure tea-p's insist they have because they are the beacons of light for us all - she'd work for free and save the taxpayers some of that money that the tea-p's talk about all the time.

[kmeccat]

09:59 AM on 01/15/2011

Tidy little bit of nepotism they got going there....way to go Maine!

[bnshwarmr]

09:37 PM on 01/14/2011

Another bagger telling the faithfull coolaid drinkers nto shove it. Elections are not an experiment. Too much at stake,

[grasspress]

03:14 PM on 01/14/2011

ummm, sounds like kim jong-il.

any language for recalls in maine state laws? time to get the ball rolling, i'd say.

[Bruce Forbes]

09:54 PM on 01/08/2011

I'm a Mainer. Paul LePage is an embarrassment. A thug. And never would have won the election had there not been three major candidates. It doesn't surprise me at all he appointed his unqualified daughter to this lucrative position.

[bellabeach]

11:35 AM on 01/15/2011

I feel for you Bruce and agree he is a Thug, but then again he is also a TP and that says it all!

[Trueheart]

08:33 AM on 01/16/2011

It was a real "hold your nose and vote" election for me.
My sense was that LePage, with his authentic Maine roots and FC heritage, drew a lot of underdog citizens to the polls, whereas the Dem and Indep candidates were both upper middle class people "from away."

[Querent]

06:03 PM on 12/29/2010

$41,000/year is not an "entry-level" salary.

[grasspress]

03:15 PM on 01/14/2011

it's chump-change for most republican string pullers.

[Alfredo Zapata]

05:05 PM on 12/29/2010

Serving the people shouldn't be a family business. It shrinks the gene pool. This is how we wound up with the likes of Bush Jr and Liz the Cheney.

[jk4]

03:59 PM on 12/29/2010

This is what these type of guys do: They become what they stridently oppose.

[enigma2]

06:11 PM on 12/29/2010

They actually let their true colors come through once they figure they are safely ensconced in office.

[Trueheart]

08:23 AM on 01/16/2011

Exactly right. ( no pun intended)

[MisterCee]

01:48 PM on 12/29/2010

If I was in a position to appoint a relative to an entry level position and they had the skills and qualifications, then I would do it too.

[edwcorey]

01:44 PM on 12/29/2010

“Lauren LePage has been an extremely valuable member of the campaign and the transition,” Demeritt told the Bangor Daily News in an e-mail.

"Demeritt"--what an appropiate name for a Republican.

[Darrin Brown]

01:29 PM on 12/29/2010

Can I have a bowl of Nepotism to go with my Tea?

[JDZSB]

01:15 PM on 12/29/2010

If you read the article, it is an entry level position and the salary, although seems on the high side to me, is consistent with the above average salaries of comparable positions in our government slots, which are all higher then comparable jobs in private industry. All politicians put people who have helped them get elected into these "political" appointments and both parties do this. One of the most egregious (sp?) examples of nepotism in my hometown is a House Rep who is in a liberal district who is " saving" the position for her daughter when she is "ready", which means when the current Rep is ready to retire.

[demorick]

11:28 AM on 12/29/2010

Well, I'd like to know who she blew to get...oh wait...it was Daddy....

[maatpublish]

11:08 AM on 12/29/2010

Don't you just love good old-fashioned American nepotism? ;-)

"It's the special club, ladies and gentlemen, and you and I ain't in it!" - George Carlin

[Trueheart]

08:26 AM on 01/16/2011

For sure!
Many of the commenters aren't old enough to remember what the Kennedy administration looked like. I would rate JFK et alia very high on the Nepo-scale.