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LePage Says He's Gotten Death Threats After Charlottesville Comments

Robert F. Bukaty
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Associated Press/file
In this Wednesday, March 8, 2017, file photo, Maine Gov. Paul LePage speaks at a town hall meeting, in Yarmouth, Maine.

Gov. Paul LePage says he has received death threats over his controversial comments about the Civil War and the violence in Charlottesville. 

LePage appeared Thursday on Portland radio station WGAN. “You cannot reason with hatred," he said. "It is just beyond reasoning, it’s - it’s just beyond reasoning. And, in fact, I have a couple of letters I have to look at today because they are threatening to kill me.”

LePage says he has received hate mail including the death threats after his comments blaming all sides for the violence in Charlottesville and his defense of Confederate monuments.  Over the last week he has denounced the removal of the monuments as an effort to erase history.

This story was originally published Aug. 24, 2017 at 11:16 a.m. ET.

   

Journalist Mal Leary spearheads Maine Public's news coverage of politics and government and is based at the State House.