Republican Gov. Paul LePage doesn’t think much of Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s tax policies.
As the Democratic governor was en route to speak with Maine Democrats at their state convention, LePage authorized a press release written by his staffers that cited O’Malley’s critics. They said the O’Malley administration had resorted to solving its financial problems by making them the problems of Maryland’s working families.
LePage’s press release then dismissed O’Malley’s record as “a record of failure.” O’Malley said LePage’s attention was focused on policies that benefit the rich.
“Some of these tea party, new age Republican governors like LePage worship the false idol of tax cuts,” O’Malley said. “The fact of the matter is that our nation’s deficit problem, 55 percent of it is driven by tax cuts that primarily benefitted the wealthiest of Americans.”
O’Malley is chair of the Democratic Governors Association and he said his group is committed to electing a Democratic governor for Maine in 2014. |