LePage launches new salvo against environmental group
Source: Bangor Daily News
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage continued confronting the Natural Resources Council of Maine, accusing them Wednesday of “playing to the media” and inviting the group’s director, Lisa Pohlmann, to meet with him.
LePage, critical of a news conference held by the NRCM last week outside his office at the State House, used his weekly radio address to again attack the “job-crushing, anti-business policies of NRCM.” In the address released Wednesday, the governor did not list any specific policies as examples of the group’s purported “anti-business” stature.
The spat between LePage and the state’s leading environmental advocacy organization has been ongoing for years but recently intensified, when LePage put an image of a scientist at NRCM on a “wanted” poster and sent letters to hundreds of the organization’s donors.
“I have written another letter to Ms. Pohlmann,” LePage said in the radio address. “I invited her to meet with me to discuss how we can work together to conserve our environment while allowing the economic development that will create good jobs for Mainers.”
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