Maine governor apologizes for ‘Gestapo’ remark about the IRS

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LePage hoped his apology in his weekly radio address would bring an end to the weeklong furor that started when he described the Internal Revenue Service as the “new Gestapo” while criticizing President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.

LePage said it was “never my intent to insult or to be hurtful to anyone, but rather express what can happen by overreaching government.”

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Yeah, that’s what the Gestapo was - government “overreach”.