LePage rips Maine environmental group in letter to its donors

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

AUGUSTA, Maine — The war of words between Gov. Paul LePage and the Natural Resources Council of Maine escalated Thursday, after the group castigated the governor for his recent letter to hundreds of the nonprofit organization’s donors.

LePage’s May 27 letter repeated allegations he has made in numerous public statements that the NRCM kills jobs with its environmental advocacy. In March, LePage hung a “wanted” poster featuring an NRCM employee outside his town hall meeting in Bath.

“The job-crushing, anti-business policies of the NRCM are preventing rural Mainers from getting the kind of jobs the need to raise themselves out of poverty,” LePage wrote in the letter.

NRCM officials said during a news conference outside LePage’s office at the State House on Thursday that the governor’s letter was misleading and meant to harass or intimidate the organization’s donors. NRCM Executive Director Lisa Pohlmann said her organization plans to send the letter, which was addressed to Pohlmann but reportedly sent to about 200 donors, to all of its 16,000 members.

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Read more: http://bangordailynews.com/2016/06/02/politics/lepage-rips-maine-environmental-group-in-letter-to-its-donors/

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I donated

yup

[jwirr]

1. I have been reading the headlines regarding this governor

but for the life of me I cannot understand how the state of Maine elected him. Did they have a nerves breakdown?

[jpak]

2. No - just multi-candidate races

where an independent spoiler drew enough votes to give LePutin a plurality - not a majority.

We're gong to vote on ranked choice voting this fall to prevent this kind of disaster in the future.

[jwirr]

3. Okay that explains why a northern state would end up in

this kind of situation. I would like to see ranked voting in every state.