Fox News host Tucker Carlson interrupted a frustrated Maine businessman who tried to give out the personal cellphone number of Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills.
Rick Savage, a restaurant owner from Bethel, Maine, was on Carlson’s show to discuss his outrage toward Maine’s stay-at-home order as the state continues to have one of the smallest coronavirus outbreaks in the nation. Savage, who donated thousands of meals throughout the pandemic, explained why he was going to open his restaurant in protest of Mills’s executive order.
At the end of the interview, Savage urged viewers to call Mills’s personal phone to complain about the measure.
“I really appreciate, Tucker, coming on, and I hope all of these restaurants will be able to open,” Savage said. “One further thing, I would love to share Janet Mills’s cellphone number with everybody, so they can give her a call directly because she’s got all the phones shut down. You can’t even call. It goes to voicemail. The lawmakers can’t even call her. They have to email her. She gets back to them, ‘Oh, thanks for that, I’ll get back to you soon.’ Here’s her phone number. It’s 207…”
Tucker drowned him out, saying, “Wait, wait, wait. How about this? I may have cut you off. If our viewers are interested, it’s Sunday Riverbrew Pub in Bethel, Maine. Call and ask for a Rick Savage, and he’ll do it.”
Savage said he was hoping to “start a revolution” to get Maine to reopen businesses.
As of Thursday, Maine had 1,095 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 53 related deaths.
