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Paul Richard LePage (born October 9, 1948) is an American businessman and Republican Party politician who has served as the 74th governor of Maine since 2011. LePage grew up on the streets of Lewiston after leaving a poor home environment at the age of 11. He served as general manager of the 14-store discount chain Marden's Surplus and Salvage from 1996 through 2011. He served as a city councilor in Waterville, Maine for two terms before serving as Mayor of Waterville (2003-11). LePage was elected governor of Maine with a plurality in a five-candidate race in 2010 and was re-elected with a stronger plurality in a three-candidate election in 2014. LePage has made eliminating Maine's income tax, fighting illegal drugs, and education reforms such as charter schools high priorities for his administration, even to the point where he has vetoed bills regardless of their merits to pressure the Maine Legislature to implement his proposals. He has also drawn attention for controversial statements he has made about various subjects, his dislike of Maine newspapers, and administrative actions he has done. In 2015, an investigation was launched to determine if he improperly used his office to force a non-profit group that operates a charter school to reverse their hiring of Mark Eves, the Democratic Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives as its president. Some Maine legislators threatened impeachment over the matter. ==Early life and education== LePage was born in Lewiston, Maine. The eldest son of eighteen children of Theresa (née Gagnon) and Gerard LePage, both of French Canadian descent,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LePage genealogy site )〕 he grew up speaking French in an impoverished home with an abusive father who was a mill worker.〔 His father drank heavily and terrorized the children, and his mother was too intimidated to stop him. At age eleven, after his father beat him and broke his nose, he ran away from home and lived on the streets of Lewiston, where he at times stayed in horse stables and at a "strip joint".〔〔 After spending roughly two years homeless, he began to earn a living shining shoes, washing dishes at a café, and hauling boxes for a truck driver. He later worked at a rubber company and a meat-packing plant and was a short order cook and bartender.〔 LePage applied to Husson College in Bangor, but he was rejected due to a poor verbal score on the SAT because English was his second language. He has said that State Representative Peter Snowe—the first husband of former U.S. senator Olympia Snowe—persuaded Husson to give LePage a written exam in French, which allowed LePage to show his reading comprehension skills and gain admission.〔〔 At Husson, LePage improved his English-language skills and became editor of the college newspaper.〔 He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in business administration in finance and accounting and later earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maine.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul LePage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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