Post by Logan on Feb 11, 2016 19:42:50 GMT -6
Gov. Paul LePage doesn’t understand how the state government’s system of check and balances works and is wrong to assert that his election to office gives him the right to use public money to “punish his political opponents,” according to a legal brief filed this week by an attorney for House Speaker Mark Eves.
The 24-page brief, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court by attorney David Webbert, was an objection to LePage’s motion in January to have a lawsuit brought against him by Eves dismissed.
The lawsuit accuses LePage of using taxpayer money and the power of his office to prevent Eves’ hiring as president of Good Will-Hinckley, a nonprofit in Fairfield that operates a charter school partly funded by the state.
Eves claims the school’s board of directors voted to rescind its offer to hire him after LePage threatened to eliminate $530,000 in state funding for the school. The Republican governor has sparred with the Democrat Eves, and has said he did not think Eves was the best person to run the school.
Read more: www.pressherald.com/2016/02/10/eves-attorney-alleges-lepage-abused-powers/
The 24-page brief, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court by attorney David Webbert, was an objection to LePage’s motion in January to have a lawsuit brought against him by Eves dismissed.
The lawsuit accuses LePage of using taxpayer money and the power of his office to prevent Eves’ hiring as president of Good Will-Hinckley, a nonprofit in Fairfield that operates a charter school partly funded by the state.
Eves claims the school’s board of directors voted to rescind its offer to hire him after LePage threatened to eliminate $530,000 in state funding for the school. The Republican governor has sparred with the Democrat Eves, and has said he did not think Eves was the best person to run the school.
Read more: www.pressherald.com/2016/02/10/eves-attorney-alleges-lepage-abused-powers/