Departing AG named to LePage policy office
Gov. Paul LePage on Monday named outgoing Attorney General William Schneider as the first deputy director of a new advisory office the Legislature created last year.
The Portland Press Herald reported that Schneider will serve as deputy director of the Governor's Office of Policy and Management, an office that takes over the executive branch functions of the State Planning Office, which had its various departments dissolved and delegated to other governmental departments.
In early December, the governor appointed outgoing Sen. Richard Rosen, R-Bucksport, to head the office that is tasked with budget formation and review across all agencies, facilitating coordination between government agencies, evaluating the effectiveness of economic incentive programs and tax policy, and delivering economic data.
In the law creating the office, it was also charged with finding $1 million in annual savings in the state budget. The Press Herald reported that the office receives $400,000 annually in state funding.
Schneider comes to the position after two years as the state's top prosecutor, four years in the Maine House of Representatives, from 1998 to 2002, and a candidacy in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Olympia Snowe.
Schneider is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and has a law degree from the University of Maine.
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