Maine governor: Workers from India hardest to understand
Paul LePage says Indians are ‘lovely people but you’ve got to have an interpreter’
Bangor, Maine: Maine’s Republican governor says it’s hard to understand workers “from Bulgaria” and workers from India are “the worst ones.”
Gov. Paul LePage said on Saturday that foreign workers are being used in restaurants after he criticised a referendum proposal to raise Maine’s minimum wage to $12 (Dh44) from $7.50. He says he’s disappointed his alternative proposal to hike the wage to $10 didn’t get traction.
He described Indians as “lovely people, but you’ve got to have an interpreter.”
LePage is known for making controversial remarks. In this case, he was chuckling as he spoke at the state party convention. He joked that his wife is going to get a job as a waitress for supplemental income.
However, both LePage and Trump suffered a setback at the Maine Convention, which elected 19 of the 23 delegates who are Cruz supporters.
Maine is a small northeastern state in the US.
In his speech, LePage was highly critical of Cruz, accusing him of “stabbing us in the back”.
“We reached a deal with Cruz’s national campaign to put up a unity slate that would honour the wishes of the thousands of Mainers who voted at caucus. But Cruz’s Northeast Political Director, David Sawyer, lied to us and broke the deal. Sawyer stabbed us in the back, reneged on the unity slate and betrayed the people of Maine,” he said in a statement.
