LePage rips Janet Mills a day after she launches campaign to succeed him
Source: Bangor Daily News
Gov. Paul LePage’s verbal assault on Attorney General Janet Mills continued Tuesday on the heels of Mills announcing she would 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 against her over the next 15 months will look like.
“She is a Democrat before she’s an attorney,” said LePage, who has long complained he has no authority over the attorney general nor any role in nominating or appointing candidates for the position. Maine is unique among U.S. states because members of the Legislature vote and elect the attorney general, treasurer, secretary of state and state auditor.
“The whole way the constitutional officers are put in place in this state is outrageous,” LePage said. “The governor, who is the only elected official in the whole state, has no say in placing constitutional officers.”
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