Bangor: Maine's governor says he won't apologise for commenting on hard-to-understand workers from Bulgaria or India.
Republican Gov Paul LePage was chuckling Saturday at the state party convention when he said he needed an interpreter to understand some foreign workers.
He said today it was "meant as a joke," but he acknowledged that "maybe it was a bad joke." He told Maine's WVOM-FM that he's not politically correct and that he won't apologise for that. And he said that he's had difficulty trying to give an order in a restaurant with foreign workers, "period."
LePage made his comments Saturday as he criticised a referendum proposal to raise Maine's minimum wage to USD 12. LePage supports raising the wage by a lesser amount.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
Republican Gov Paul LePage was chuckling Saturday at the state party convention when he said he needed an interpreter to understand some foreign workers.
He said today it was "meant as a joke," but he acknowledged that "maybe it was a bad joke." He told Maine's WVOM-FM that he's not politically correct and that he won't apologise for that. And he said that he's had difficulty trying to give an order in a restaurant with foreign workers, "period."
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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