One can only hope:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R), whose budget veto was just overridden by state legislators, told reporters Wednesday that he might not seek a second term.
“I am going to be meeting with my family at some point and we are going to be talking it over,” LePage said, according to the Bangor Daily News. “Quite frankly, I don’t know how you recover from this. I really don’t know how you recover from a tax increase. This is a giant obstacle. It’s like having a giant hole in the bottom of your ship and you are trying to get across the pond.”
Last week LePage suggested he might run for Congress instead of another term as governor. But he said Thursday that he would not do so.
LePage battled his own party over the budget, calling a government shutdown preferable to the bipartisan compromise worked out in the legislature. In a recent op-ed, a top ranking Republican in the state Senate, Assistant Senate Republican Leader Roger Katz, said he was “embarrassed” by the governor. - Washington Post, 6/27/13
LePage deciding not to run for a second term would probably be the best thing he could do for the state of Maine. The Fix has provided a list of LePage's greatest hits:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
They were able to provide video links as well but this one best depicts the insanity that is Paul LePage:
http://www.youtube.com/...
So yeah, I doubt anyone would miss him. LePage is just another Tea Party Governor who rode in on the 2010 Tea Party wave but faces terrible approval ratings just like his fellow Tea Party Governors Tom Corbett (R. PA), Rick Scott (R. FL), Rick Snyder (R. MI) and Nikki Haley (R. SC). LePage also benefited from a three person race which hopefully won't be the case next year. LePage is so polarizing that even his own party can't work with him. For the sake of sanity and the good people of Democracy, LePage should do the decent thing and not run again. He's getting that sense that the majority of voters just don't want him to be their Governor. Hopefully he'll get the message and make a decision soon.