Good morning from Augusta, where sniping in the primary race for governor is in full effect.
A years-long political fight between two of Maine’s top officials shifted to the airwaves. On Wednesday, Gov. Paul LePage used his radio address to attack Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Janet Mills for a new campaign advertisement that attempts to demonstrate how Mills has stood up to LePage on a variety of issues, including an attempt to take Medicaid away from “thousands of kids.”
That’s where LePage cries foul, taking umbrage with the use of the word “kids” and the ad’s use of a picture of a young girl over the words “keeping them covered.”
The issue referenced by Mills involves the LePage’s administration’s 2014 attempt to amend its state Medicaid plan and boot low-income 19- and 20-year-olds off coverage they have been receiving since the state expanded its Medicaid program in the 1990s. The courts ruled against LePage consistently, culminating in the U.S. Supreme Court declining to hear the case in June of 2015.
“Janet Mills is not telling the truth,” said LePage in the radio address. “Despite what Mills says, these are not school children.”
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