Mouth: *In fact, the Republican governor had a very rough start
<http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/25/from-the-streets-to-the-governors-mansion-paul-lepage-embraces-fiscal-conservatism-for-survival/>.
LePage was the oldest of 18 children in a dysfunctional family. At
age 11, his father put him in the hospital with a broken nose and a
dislocated jaw. When his dad showed up to the hospital, he flipped
LePage a 50-cent piece and told him to say he'd fallen down the stairs.
Instead, LePage decided he'd had enough. He slipped out of the
hospital and lived on the streets of Lewiston, Maine, for two years,
sleeping where he could — cars, stairwells, hallways, even a brothel.
He's kept that 50-cent piece in his pocket every day since 1960 as a
reminder of where he came from. For LePage, fiscal conservatism
wasn't so much a political philosophy as a survival strategy.
There's a man who knows the value of a half dollar.
How did he get out of that hole? Hard work, and the help of two
families, one of them connected by marriage to Senator Olympia Snowe.
(From what I can tell, he's doing a pretty good job as governor, though
he ran into a bump or two at the beginning. And I love an executive who
understands how destructive regulations can be.)
- 12:36 PM, 26 July 2011 [link]
<http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/July2011_4.html#jrm10112>
From Jim Miller on Politics
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