Defiant Maine Governor: "I Didn't Say Anything About Black"

BuzzFeed - Gov. LePage went on a racially charged rant Wednesday night, singling out heroin traffickers with names like "D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty" who enter the state and impregnate "young, white" women. Maine Gov. Paul LePage addressed his controversial comments on drug traffickers in his state during a news conference on Friday, saying his only "slip-up" was calling Maine women "white women." WCSH "I spent an hour and 15 minutes talking to the people in Richmond the other night about some of the problems in Maine," LePage said. "In that whole time, many of you were there, that whole time, I made one slip-up, I made one word of slip-up. I may have made many slip-ups. I was going impromptu and my brain didn't catch up to my mouth." LePage continued, "Instead of saying 'Maine women' I said 'white women' and I'm not going to apologize to the Maine women for that. Because if you go to Maine, you'll see that we're essentially 95% white." Later in the