LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen voted Jan. 15 to accept a Code of Ethics for town officials and employees, and a Code of Conduct for appointed and elected officials. Board Chairwoman Heather Bronish asked Town Manager Stephen Gould to determine if the codes could go before voters in a warrant article. Among the points outlined in […]
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EPA chief Scott Pruitt faces Capitol Hill grilling over ethical missteps
WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt faces potentially make-or-break hearings Thursday on Capitol Hill, where he is expected to be peppered with questions about spending and ethics scandals that have triggered bipartisan calls for his ouster. Pruitt was scheduled to testify about his agency’s budget in back-to-back hearings before two House subcommittees. […]
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Democrats claim Bruce Poliquin's office bed is an abuse of taxpayer funds
An ethics complaint filed by 30 Democrats in the U.S. House claims their colleagues who sleep in their government offices are abusing taxpayer funds to give themselves free housing in the nation’s capital. One of the members who spends his nights in Washington in his office is U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, a two-term Republican from […]
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Maine Examiner shows Jason Savage’s interest in news
AUGUSTA — For $74 and some off-the-clock sweat, Republican Party Executive Director Jason Savage says he created and ran a once-secretive online newspaper that did not have ties to the state GOP. The party itself told the Maine Ethics Commission it did not know anything about who operated Savage’s Maine Examiner until Democrats filed a […]
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GOP leader Jason Savage says controversial website is his, but denies ties to party
AUGUSTA — The executive director of the Maine Republican Party, Jason Savage, admitted to a state ethics panel that he is the owner and operator of the secretive Maine Examiner website that published leaked emails from unsuccessful Lewiston mayoral candidate Ben Chin’s campaign. Savage’s attorneys said the GOP official runs the site “in his free […]
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Faircloth: Fake news purveyors intolerable
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sean Faircloth has had it with fake news. “We’ve got to protect our democracy” from the rising tide of anonymous online slurs and Russian meddling, the former state lawmaker and ex-mayor of Bangor said. Faircloth, one of a dozen Democrats vying for his party’s backing in the June 12 primary, said government […]
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LePage says he doesn't know anything about the Maine Examiner
The online Maine Examiner, which is in the middle of a political spat between Democrats and Republicans, remains a mystery to Gov. Paul LePage. During an interview with Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show Tuesday, the governor denied any knowledge of the conservative-oriented website at the center of an ethics complaint filed by the Maine […]
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Maine ethics panel will consider Democratic complaint about GOP
AUGUSTA — The Maine Republican Party denied Friday that it has anything to do with the secretive Maine Examiner. Despite online evidence that the party’s executive director had ties to the website that helped torpedo Lewiston mayoral candidate Ben Chin’s campaign in December, the GOP said the Examiner “was not created or operated by, or […]
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Cutler Files case may provide precedent for ethics complaint about Maine Examiner
AUGUSTA — A 2010 case in which Maine’s ethics commission slapped a $200 fine on the purveyor of a politically oriented website cloaked in anonymity suddenly seems relevant again. As Democrats and Republicans clash over the secretive Maine Examiner online site that helped contribute to the defeat of a Lewiston Democrat in last month’s mayoral […]
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Democrats cry foul as photos tie GOP to Maine Examiner
[UPDATE: More ties discovered between Maine GOP’s director and a secretive website] AUGUSTA — Shortly after lunch on the first Monday of December, Maine Republican Party Executive Director Jason Savage copied an online photograph of Lewiston mayoral candidate Ben Chin onto his computer. Savage’s copied picture, titled “chin-profile-two,” wound up illustrating a story that ran the […]