Maine's attorney general threatens to sue LePage administration for cutting off office's funds

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Source: Portland Press Herald

AUGUSTA – Attorney General Janet Mills is threatening to take legal action to force the LePage administration to release $4.9 million in funds owed to her office for legal services to state agencies.

LePage’s refusal to allow funds, already approved by the Legislature, to flow to the Attorney General’s Office is apparently threatening the office’s ability to help the Department of Health and Human Services in child protective cases.

At a public hearing Monday on a package of bills aimed at strengthening child protective services, lawmakers on the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee heard from Kirsten Figueroa, the administrative services chief for Mills.

“Any component that ends up in a court, for these children, for the welfare of these kids is done by the Attorney General,” Figueroa said. “Everything that’s done in the court is done by the assistant attorney generals.”

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Read more: https://www.pressherald.com/2018/08/27/maines-attorney-general-is-threatening-legal-action-against-gov-paul-lepage-for-unpaid-legal-debts/

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FYI - Janet Mills the the Democratic candidate running to replace (term limited) LePew.

[mainer]

1. Janet Mills is going to be a great governor

She's been fighting the good fight against LePage all these years, and she has the ovaries to take down the idiot GOP opponent.

[eShirl]

3. Everything I've seen of her has been good. n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Don't threaten

Just do it. It's the only thing they understand.