The Left-Cheek Ass Clown for January, 2016

As the first month of the new year draws to a close, it's time to name our

Left-Cheek Ass Clown

for

January, 2016

As always, there are plenty of deserving candidates, but in my opinion (it's my blog, so my opinion is the only one that counts) there is one clear standout choice ...

Maine Governor

Paul LePage

No stranger to controversy, Governor LePage has gone out of his way to antagonize various groups, as when earlier this month he said of drug dealers plying their evil trade in Maine,

"These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty ... They come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave."

This week, Governor LePage continued his one-man war on drug dealers. He first suggested that an appropriate sentence would be to inject them with the same substances they sold; later, he opined that the death penalty alone was not good enough for drug dealers ... that he recommended bringing back public executions by guillotine.

Wow.

For his  ... um ... unusually direct approach to solving the drug crisis, Maine governor Paul LePage is named as our Left-Cheek Ass Clown for January, 2016.

And you thought Stephen King was the weirdest resident of Maine ...

Have a good day. See you tomorrow for Cartoon Saturday.

Bilbo