AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage announced Monday that he would appeal a ruling in a long-running legal battle with Attorney General Janet Mills to Maine’s high court — about two weeks before the Nov. 6 election in which she is the Democratic nominee to succeed him.
It’s the latest salvo between the Republican governor and the attorney general. The core issue is somewhat spun off from a case in which Maine Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy ruled against the governor in October 2017 in a case over Mills’ refusal to pay his office’s costs for weighing in on federal legal issues.
It comes after a survey released this weekend showed Mills pulling ahead of Republican Shawn Moody in a tight, four-way race to succeed LePage as of early this month in an unsettled race that has seen $7.7 million in outside spending but scant polling since the summer.
LePage issued a statement lambasting Mills on Monday evening, accusing the Democrat of “rogue and unscrupulous behavior” and “cronyism.” Mills’ office didn’t immediately respond to the governor’s announcement, which came just as state business was closing Monday.
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