AUGUSTA, Maine - Gov. Paul LePage told more than 200 high school students participating in the annual YMCA Youth in Government program at the State House in Augusta that he hopes some will serve in government.
He says the elections last week sent a clear message that Mainers want him and the Legislature to work for future generations and not become mired in gridlock like the federal government.
"If we continue to do what has happened in Washington, for the last decade where it is party, party, party and gridlock, the country loses, the American people lose," LePage said, "and if that happens here, Maine people lose."
The governor told the students he will work to make sure they can get a good education in Maine and that there will be good jobs for them in Maine after they complete their education.
"The lesson I want to go away with today is we have a structure and we have a system, and this system is designed to work very efficiently if everyone that is sent here comes here for the right reason and the right reason is to serve the people who elect you, it's not to serve yourself," LePage said.
