I’d like to connect the week before Christmas with you and key staff. If youare not in town, we can hopefully get some of your staffs putting togethersome of the resources / information we are going to need to get rolling. Once we take office, Paul will put 11,000 bureaucrats to work getting Republicans re-elected.
That is how Dan Demeritt, press spokesman for then Maine Tea Party Republican Gov.-Elect Paul LePage, concluded an email sent to senior advisers and Maine Republican Party leaders on 18 December 2010. With a two-and-a-half weeks before the inauguration, the email provides an outline of how far forward LePage was looking.
You can find the entire email below the fold.