AUGUSTA, Maine — After his administration was sued by Attorney General Janet Mills over withholding millions from her office, Gov. Paul LePage injected himself into her Nov. 6 race to succeed him and compared her to former Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.
It was the second legal volley between the Republican governor and Mills this week. On Monday, he announced that he would appeal a judge’s ruling in favor of Mills in a lawsuit over her power to weigh in on out-of-state lawsuits to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
The lawsuit over funding to Mills’ office comes after LePage tried for months to get the attorney general to itemize billing for legal services to state agencies — normally a rote function of government — in a way that her office has said would be costly.
To read the rest of “LePage’s legal feud with Mills shifts to her run for governor,” an article by contributing Bangor Daily News staff writer Michael Shepherd, please follow this link to the BDN online.
