LePage attempts to turn Maine Republican party against fellow legislator

[jpak]

Source: Portland Press Herald

Gov. Paul LePage is intensifying his bid to remove a Republican lawmaker from a committee overseeing an investigation into the governor’s threat to withhold state funds from a private charter school that hired a political rival, Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves.

Last week, LePage sent a letter to Republican legislative leaders reiterating his call for Sen. Roger Katz, the Republican co-chairman of the Government Oversight Committee, to recuse himself from proceedings involving a probe into the withdrawal of funds from Good Will-Hinckley in Fairfield. LePage, who also sent a separate letter to Katz, copied Maine Republican Party Chairman Rick Bennett and members of the party’s state committee. The inclusion of Bennett and the committee indicates that the governor is seeking reinforcements in a controversy that has reverberated throughout the State House.

The party’s state committee is considered by some Republicans to be stacked with LePage loyalists. Republican legislators have said that committee members pressure lawmakers who disagree with the governor’s policies, or speak out against his long history of controversial statements.

In his Oct. 22 letter to Republican leaders, LePage wrote that Katz has ulterior motives in advancing an investigation that on Oct. 15 led the Government Oversight Committee to vote to subpoena two of the governor’s high ranking staffers.

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Petulant Penguin pouts pathetically

yup

[crim son]

1. He never fails to fail. n/t

[gregcrawford]

2. I always thought Satan would be skinnier... n/t

[forest444]

3. He isn't always, you know:

(any resemblance to Baron, er, Governor LePage is pure coincidence)

[gregcrawford]

4. Regardless...

... the Sun will shine a little brighter, and the air will smell a WHOLE lot fresher when Maine is rid of that malevolent psychopath.

[forest444]

5. Hear, hear.

LePage seems to be as far from the image of the pragmatic, genteel Maine lawmaker you can possibly get.

Correct me if I'm wrong; but frankly he comes off as the kind of thuggish oaf that, were it not for our system of checks and balances (such as it is), would turn into this if left to his own devices: