AUGUSTA (AP) — Democratic lawmakers are calling on Gov. Paul LePage to apologize for his remarks comparing the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo.
The Democratic leaders of the House and Senate issued a statement Sunday calling LePage’s language “intentionally offensive.” Rep. Emily Cain and Sen. Justin Alfond said Holocaust survivors and Word War II veterans who witnessed the terror of the Adolf Hitler’s secret police “should not be trivialized for political shock.”
In his weekly radio address Saturday, LePage attacked the Supreme Court’s decision that upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law.
LePage said the court’s decision has “made America less free” and that people have no choice but to buy health insurance or “pay the new Gestapo — the IRS.”
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