Maine’s Governor-elect, Paul LePage, is in DC today to meet with the President. Yesterday, he was meeting with Maine businesses to talk about cutting regulations. Among the items on the chopping block are child labor laws. Not kidding:

Tuesday’s forum was sponsored by the Maine Business Association Roundtable, a group of lobbyists for chambers of commerce and trade groups that represent general contractors, merchants, auto dealers and real estate agents. Twenty-eight representatives of these groups sat at a table with LePage on Tuesday and listed an assortment of regulations they described as well-intended but burdensome — regulations related to the environment, civil rights, public health, child labor laws and tax policy.

And, we wonder why Collins and Snowe are veering right. This is their Republican party.