reporter: inside maine's capitol building reporters were on the chase before the state's governor paul lepagegain. according to two of maine's top newspapers lepage was quoted as telling a fund-raiser last week, president obama, quote, hates white people. lepage says that's false. >> did you say obama hates white people? >> no, i never said that that. you guys are all about gossip. >> reporter: a spokesman for maine's republican party points to what the gop told one reporter while he didn't hear the question, governor lepage had to do something it showed lepage and his wife and a teenager from jamaica raised by the family for nearly a decade. the highlight reel of inflammatory comments, whether they're on the president, on obama care >> you must guy health insurance or pay the new gas tap poe, the irs. >> reporter: on the naacp. >> tell them to miss my butt. >> reporter: or on the lawmakers. >> he's the first one to give it to the people without providing vaseline. >> reporter: and it's not what republicans want to hear for the republican party. at the rnc they tried to spread the word that i

the portland press herald is reporting maine governor paul lepage said the president hates white people and would be more successful if he erased his by racial heritage. it cites two sources. an adviser close to the governor says it is far fetched to make an insinuation lepage is a racist, but back in 2010, he remarked in a republican forum that he wouldn't be afraid to tell obama to go to hell and in 2011 he turned down an invitation to a naacp event saying the group could, quote, kiss my butt. and those are quotes. >>> mayor filner was expected to be back in his office monday after spending some time away for inpatient behavior therapy. he reportedly met with city council leaders and lawyer gloria allred who represents several of his accusers. meanwhile dozens of supporters, that's right, supporters of filner rallied on his behalf welcoming his return and backing him as a pillar of the community and civil rights. some compared his treatment to mccarthyism and said his work outweighs the accusations. >> i am appalled at the attacks against mayor filner by elements of what i can only de

inside maine's capitol building, reporters were on the chase because paul lepage had reportedly steppednnamed sources as telling a gop fund raiser last week president obama, quote, hates white people. he insists that's false. >> can you tell us what you said? >> no, i never said that. and you guys are all about gossip. >> reporter: still, the state's gop leaders have gone into damage control. the spokesman for the party points to what the chairman told one reporter while he didn't hear the comment in question, governor lepage said he had a chance to unify the country on race but didn't do anything. then there was this photo features lepage and the family and a student from haiti they raised for a decade. whether his comments are on obama care -- >> you must buy health insurance or pay the new gestapo, the irs. >> reporter: or on drk lawmakers. >> he's the first one to give it to the people. >> reporter: it's no wonder it was written in june he was embarrassed. the governor's behavior is something i've never seen in maine politics and could never imagine coming from a republican. and it'

. >>> today our fans had a lot to say about republican governor paul lepage from maine who reportedlyaid that president obama hates white people. at a fund-raiser last week, he said this. allegedly. today he is denying that he said that. even though two republican lawmakers confirmed it to a local paper. anita said, actually i'm glad guys like him say things like that. help shine the light on their motives, their arcane thinking and just how poorly informed and out of touch they really are. and dan says, of course, he has the right to his opinion. but it doesn't may not that his opinion is right. we want to hear what you think about this one too please head over to politics on facebook nation. 've had this farm for 30 years. we raise black and red angus cattle. we also produce natural gas. that's how we make our living and that's how we can pass the land and water back to future generations. people should make up their own mind what's best for them. all i can say is it has worked well for us. like carpools... polly wants to know if we can pick her up. yeah, we can make room. yeah. [ m

fund-raiser and he got a lot of flak, jeb bush, who could be a 2016 candidate was raising money for paul lepages obama. when you're comparing anybody who hasn't killed millions of people to hitler, you're generally losing. >> the governor's spokesman is pointing to devon raymond, the young man he took into his home from jamaica, who he refers to his son. >> we've seen this too many times with politicians that when it comes to president obama, some racist thing comes out and they try to deny it and change the subject and then reince priebus goes to the republican convention and says, oh, we're actually going to make an extra special effort this year to reach out to blacks. i think that, you know, the problem that republicans have, yes, they've got a couple of racist governors -- >> couple? >> well, at least one. >> you're just spotting them a racist governor. >> i'm adding another one. >> to be named later. >> to be named later. but really what they have is they have a numbers problem. they're not going to continue to win presidential campaigns if they don't reach out more, if they don't have a

paul lepage, rick scott approval rating.his deeply unpopular governor, pat mccrory signed into law the worst -- bill in country. rick hassan, professor at university of north carolina, says looking at the north carolina bill pat mccrory just signed, he said it's the worst voter suppression bill signed into law in any state since 1965 when the voting rights act passed. what's becoming clear all of a sudden this week in north carolina is that that bill, that radical bill, that huge overhaul of north carolina voting rights that pat mccrory signed on monday, that is not a standalone thing. it apparently is just part of an overall plan, a multipart plan to radically change democracy in that state. a plan that includes more than just this new law that's already being put into effect. you can see it happening this week in these counties. this is appalachian state university in north carolina. take a look. ♪ hot, hot, hot >> obviously part of their promo video, the very friendly, hot, hot, hot, appalachian state university in the no

florida's rick scott, maine's paul lepage and tom corbett of my home state of pennsylvania. have strong candidates in all three races, and those state mace well present the best chances for democrats to win back governorships in 2014. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." symbolism is often in the eye of the beholder. in new richelle, new york, a veterans group filed a federal lawsuit against the city partly over the symbolism of the famous gadsden flag. the yellow flag with its rattlesnake and phrase don't tread on any was a symbol of the american revolution, but in recent years the gadsden flag has been flown by attendees at tea party rallies. the flag has become associated with the tea party in some quarters. in march shortly after a local veterans group replaced the tattered american flag with a new american flag and a gadsden flag flying underneath it, city officials ordered it taken down. in response, the patriotic association of new rochelle filed a federal lawsuit. moses is a citizen volunteer with the save our armory committee. he actually purchased a

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