Bipartisan committee OKs LePage investigation
The state Legislature’s bipartisan Government Oversight Committee has voted unanimously in support of launching a formal investigation into recent actions taken by Gov. Paul LePage.
The Sun Journal reported that Wednesday’s decision calls for the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability to establish facts as to whether LePage threatened or took action to withhold taxpayer money from a private charter school because it hired House Speaker Mark Eves, a Democrat and known political opponent of LePage.
LePage’s chief attorney argued that OPEGA doesn’t have any authority to investigate the governor. But Beth Ashcroft, executive director of OPEGA, said her independent agency’s investigation will not focus on LePage’s authority and instead focus on what happened with taxpayer money that went from the Department of Education to Good Will-Hinckley School in Fairfield. The investigation only seeks to establish the facts in the case, which legislators could then use to take action against LePage.
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