Gov. Paul LePage’s verbal assault on Attorney General Janet Mills continued Tuesday on the heels of Mills announcing that she seek the Democratic nomination to replace LePage as Maine’s next governor. LePage’s comments Tuesday morning during a radio interview on WVOM were nothing new but illustrated, again, how he has been loaded up against Mills for years and what the campaign […]
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Paul LePage again argues that he has enough power to pardon a dog
Gov. Paul LePage is once again weighing in on behalf of Dakota, the husky condemned to death for attacking two dogs in less than a year. LePage plans to file a friend of the court brief, defending his authority to pardon the 4-year-old husky, according to a letter provided by the district attorney prosecuting the […]
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Legislature still has work to do after state budget passed
AUGUSTA (AP) — Work hasn’t ended yet for Maine lawmakers after the legislative season ended in a theatrical budget squabble and a three-day government shutdown. In coming weeks and months, lawmakers still smarting from the budget will have to come together to deal with a pile of unfunded and vetoed bills, bonds, and the rollout […]
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Commentary: Why is Gov. Paul LePage trying to confuse reporters?
If I’m reading this right, it looks like Maine’s governor just admitted to doing something that the Russians are being investigated for: making up news to confuse reporters. And then he took it a step further by wishing news never existed. “I just love to sit in my office and make up ways so they’ll […]
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Paul LePage brags he misleads the press, calls media 'inaccurate' and 'vile'
AUGUSTA — Maine’s Republican governor is lashing out at media reports he planned to leave the state during the government shutdown. And his comments suggest his feud with the press has reached the point where he makes up stories to mislead reporters. Gov. Paul LePage criticized the news media Thursday on WGAN-AM for reporting that […]
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Police say GOP lawmaker's car wasn't vandalized
AUGUSTA (AP) — Capitol police say it appears there was no intentional damage to a car belonging to one of two Republican lawmakers who claimed their vehicles were vandalized. The two lawmakers claimed their cars were damaged after House Republicans torpedoed a compromise budget, causing the state government shutdown on Saturday. Republican Gov. Paul LePage […]
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Analysis: How the shutdown ended, and what's next
Good morning from Augusta, where we have a budget and have gone from constant action to no action in the State House. Weary reporters are still trying to adjust. But there’s a lot that didn’t make our stories from the long weekend. Here are some of them: The impasse popped out of existence like a […]
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Gov. Paul LePage ends shutdown by signing $7.1B budget bill
AUGUSTA — In the wee hours of Independence Day, Maine’s government shutdown ended, after lawmakers and Gov. Paul LePage reached a budget compromise that none of them liked but all of them could live with. The $7.1 billion spending plan wiped out the voter-approved surtax on high earners but still delivered an additional $162 million for education while barely […]
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Maine shutdown: Lawmakers to vote on budget deal
9 votes short of ending a shutdown. #mepolitics https://t.co/842As1xhIK — Chris Cousins (@Storytiller) July 3, 2017 Updated 1:59 p.m.: AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s partial government shutdown stretched in to its third day Monday with state employees and union activists calling for Republicans to support a budget compromise that could end the stalemate. The state Legislature failed […]
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Paul LePage says he wants a budget, not more delays
AUGUSTA (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage urged lawmakers to put aside “petty egos” and send him a budget on Sunday as a legislative panel sought common ground on a proposal promoted by House Republicans who torpedoed the previous spending bill. LePage posted a Facebook video in which he chastised Republican Senate President Michael Thibodeau […]