Lawmakers vote unanimously to support investigation of LePage
Source: Bangor Daily News
AUGUSTA, Maine — Members of the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to start a formal investigation into whether Gov. Paul LePage illegally or unethically used taxpayer money to force Good Will-Hinckley to fire House Speaker Mark Eves.
Sen. Roger Katz, R-Augusta, co-chairman of the committee, said lawmakers of both parties were concerned about the events of the past week involving Eves, LePage and the Fairfield-based nonprofit.
“The events of the last few weeks involving Good Will-Hinckley are troubling and, as often happens in partisan politics, it seems that some people are going to their corners and are ready to fight,” Katz said while opening the hearing. “Most people in Maine just want to know what happened.”
Earlier on Wednesday, LePage’s legal counsel argued in a letter to the committee that the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability, the watchdog agency the committee oversees, lacks any authority to investigate the governor.
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