Best-selling author Stephen King is demanding that Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage "man up and apologize" for saying the horror storyteller moved out of state to avoid paying taxes.
The governor had said in his weekly radio address released Wednesday that states without an income tax, like Florida, have lured away residents like King, who owns a home there, the
Portland Press Herald reports.
The administration tried to delete the reference, but not before the flap made its way into the national media, the Press Herald reports, and on Thursday, King sent a stern response to The Pulse AM-620 radio station in Bangor, which he owns.
"Gov. LePage is full of the stuff that makes the grass grow green," King said, adding that he and his wife, Tabitha, "pay every cent of our Maine state income taxes, and are glad to do it…"
Marsha DeFilippo, a spokeswoman for King, told the Press Herald she hadn't gotten an apology from the governor as of noon Friday.
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