My wife and I attended a supposed informational meeting on the governor’s budget and tax proposals last Wednesday, sponsored by state Sen. Cathy Breen, D-Falmouth.

Instead, the event was crashed by the “Big Guy” himself, Gov. LePage! Without even acknowledging Sen. Breen (she must have Democratic “cooties”), he refused to sit with her and went to his own podium.

He then beguiled us with his homespun platitudes about how great it would be for children to start work at age 11, how the restaurants in Seattle are all closing because of the $15 minimum wage (a total falsehood) and how he hoped Portland would pass the same thing so it could fail as well.

In between his cherished folksy tales, he gave a rambling defense of his tax cut plan for the 1 percent and how the sales tax, which he admitted was regressive, was still better, as we had a “choice” on whether to spend money.

I never would have voluntarily put myself in his presence, but I do not regret it: He is truly more obnoxious in person than on television!

Of course, he would not apologize for slandering Stephen King as a tax dodger. In Gov. LePage’s alternative reality, he never actually said that, despite being being recorded saying King had left the state.

Thanks, Eliot Cutler!

John Riley

Falmouth