‘The White Girl in Maine’ Hits Back at Governor’s Racist Remark

Mom Becca Edwards is “pissed” about a racist remark that her state’s governor made, and she’s calling him out on it, offering her own biracial family as an example of how very wrong he is.

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Maine Gov. Paul LePage issued his offensive comment at a town hall meeting in Bridgton on Jan. 6 while speaking about the influx of heroin in the Pine Tree State. “These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty — these types of guys — they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home,” the Republican blasted. “Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we have to deal with down the road.”

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Though the crowd at the town meeting didn’t immediately react, social media’s response was swift — and seething. The Portland Press Herald reports that Marlon Marshall, Hillary Clinton’s director of state campaigns and political engagement, issued a statement calling LePage’s comments “racist rants,” while Maine Democratic Party Chairman Phil Bartlett dubbed them “outrageous” and Michael Tyler, the Democratic National Committee’s director of African-American media, declared them “disgusting.”

But in Edwards’s now-viral Facebook response, the self-described “white girl in Maine,” took it one step further and called for LePage’s ouster. “Last week the governor in Maine, my state, suggested to the world that if one were to see me (the white girl) and my daughter (the biracial girl) walking down the street, that she is a product of my involvement with a drug dealer from out of state. And even worse, that she wasn’t wanted,” wrote the mother in her Jan. 9 post, which has been shared more than 216,000 times in just two days. “Things he says don’t usually get under my skin, but these words were cruel, infuriating, insulting, and full of hate and should not be tolerated.”

Maine Governor Paul LePage (Photo: Portland Press Herald/Getty Images)

Edwards — who didn’t respond to Yahoo Parenting’s request for comment — revealed that she has a master’s degree and “an excellent job in health care,” and that her “daughter’s father (the black guy) is….wait for it…my husband!” “Even more crazy,” she continues, “he’s not a drug dealer! What?!? He’s a well-educated man with an excellent job in education, in fact. And our daughter, was so wanted. Do me a favor and share this status to show the world what the picture of a biracial family in Maine really looks like, and that we do not support the ignorant (expletive) that is our governor. ‪#‎impeachlepage‬.”

And while Edwards has raked in support, including comments like, “We are all behind you 100%” and “Beautifully put. Love wins,” since she spoke out, LePage has gotten attention of another kind. Lawmakers led by Portland, Maine, Democrat Rep. Ben Chipman have reportedly submitted an impeachment order demanding an investigation into LePage’s “alleged abuse of power.”

(Top photo: Facebook/Becca Edwards)

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