The complex rules could keep Paul in check.

      It is said "we don't make the rules we just have to play by them." Well King Paul thinks the rules are too complex, so much so that he wants to have legislators bring him the rules whenever they write a bill.
I am wondering if this is so he personally can rewrite the rules. Well, that is not the governor's job. The Governor either signs a piece of legislation or does not sign it. If King Paul wants to write the bills that come before the governor, perhaps he should have run for a state seat, representative Lepage sounds better anyway. In the Portland Press Herald article Lepage: Rules too complex, by Susan Cover today, Lepage is quoted as saying "If you want me to sign a bill, show me the rules and regulations, everything, and I will sign it."
              Well I say to my fellow legislators keep these rules hard and tight and by all means complex, for the last thing we need is King Paul passing any laws without rules. Paul, every law is a rule. We don't call them rules though because they are more complex, and often times law requires a little more study than a simple rule. Regulation has only gotten more complex because business always find a way around a law. It has never been the people finding away around the law. We submit, we pay our taxes or lose our house. On the other hand, business goes more like "we put arsenic in the ground water? No we didn't." Then comes the good one "prove it," which is the start of the business just sucking away state resources as we spend to defend ourselves from poison. Last, comes the business generated report, "that the arsenic while at very high levels, and not previously noted, is natural and was always there." Lovely. That my friends is a sample of typical business. Without regulation, rules if King Paul likes the term better, not only will we be the lowest paid workers in the Northeast (which we are), we will be the most polluted and corrupt State. I'm all for Liberty and truly want more of it, but I'm not ready to let King Paul give his business cronies a free pass, to ride Maine into the ground, for their 'liberty without the rules'.

                                            Well, I have to go, be back soon to finish this up and make it coherent, Please, have a good day, thanks, Ms. Paula Page