LePage order, revealed after months, was withheld in violation of Maine law

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

AUGUSTA, Maine — The executive order issued by Gov. Paul LePage on April 20 to start an investigation into the Maine Human Rights Commission, but wasn’t released publicly until Tuesday, was withheld in apparent violation of Maine public records law.

According to Maine Revised Statutes, all executive orders must be filed with the Legislative Council and the Law and Legislative Reference Library when they are issued. In addition, the orders must be posted on the state’s website within one week of the issuance date.

Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, a Democrat, said Wednesday that he never saw the executive order. His office is responsible for filing and archiving all official documents from the legislative and executive branches.

“Those are not common documents, and it is an arguable point whether such a document has any force when it is never made public,” said Dunlap. “At the very least this is gross negligence; it’s incompetence at the base level. If it was done intentionally, it borders on malfeasance. The duty of public officials is to make their work public. This is about doing the people’s business.”

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Impeach already FFCS

[truebluegreen]

1. They have more than enough cause to impeach

and at the very least the man would be less of an embarrassment to the state of Maine out of office than in.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Is there no impeachment provisin against the governor in the Maine constitution?

How about recall? You Downstaters should have an easier time with that since LePage has never been elected with a majority vote and I doubt anyone that unbalanced would have majority support.