Governor LePage addresses public forum at MDI High School, Bar Harbor
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Transcript from MDI HS video
Governor’s presentation:
- Income tax
- Energy
- Welfare
- Budget surplus and Appropriations cascade
- Early college
- Student loan debt
- Increasing sales tax
- Minimum wage
- Child labor
Questions from audience:
- Confrontational style
- Goodwill-Hinckley suit
- Medicaid expansion
- Northwoods National Park
- State purchase of Bar Harbor ferry terminal
- Environment and water quality
- Fire danger on publicly managed lands: Acadia vs. Baxter
- Refugees
- Influencing government and working toward the common good
- Next generation’s share of national debt
- Opiates, treatment and law enforcement
- Land for Maine’s Future bonds
- University of Maine student retention and system reorganization
- Relocating Portland DHHS facility to South Portland
- Liquor contract and hospital debt
- Legislators, love, and dogs
- Opiates and enforcement revisited
- Marijuana ballot initiative
- Women’s health initiative