After Detailed Stories Cover LePage Admin's Cozy Relationships W. Lobbyists, Gag Slapped Into Place

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AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul LePage's administration will no longer comment in stories published by the Portland Press Herald, the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The new policy follows the newspapers' publication of a three-day series of articles this week examining LePage's top environmental regulator and how her department's actions have benefited her former lobbying clients in private industry.

LePage's spokeswoman, Adrienne Bennett, informed a Press Herald reporter of the new policy following a request for the governor's public events calendar. Bennett would not provide the calendar, a public document, and said the administration would no longer participate in stories reported by the three newspapers.

Bennett said MaineToday Media, the newspapers' parent company, "had made it clear that it opposed this administration." She would not elaborate, saying that responses from the administration could be gleaned from reports by The Associated Press or through document requests using the Freedom of Access Act.

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http://www.pressherald.com/politics/LePage-spokeswoman-.html

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1. I wonder if Maine is sick of this moronic

asshole yet?

I'd like to see some polls on his popularity.

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2. I was wondering that too - any Mainers out there?

Love an update!