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Black pastor urges LePage to ‘button your lip’ after comments on race, drugs

AUGUSTA – In a rambling, 40-minute speech that was part sermon and part soliloquy, a Christian pastor from New Jersey told Mainers they needed to forgive their Republican Gov. Paul LePage for comments he made in August about race and drug trafficking. Rev. Steve Craft also had some advice for LePage: “From now on, button your lip,” Craft, who holds a master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and describes himself as a “black American,” said to about 20 people at the State House Visitor Center on Wednesday. Craft said he had written to LePage offering him his support and advice following the media storm in August that started during a LePage town hall in North Berwick, where LePage said he was keeping track of drug arrests in Maine in a three-ring binder and 90 percent of the booking mug shots from those arrests were of people of color.

 

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