Two legislators push impeachment as panel ends LePage inquiry
Source: Bangor Daily News
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Government Oversight Committee’s investigation of Gov. Paul LePage’s role in forcing Good Will-Hinckley to rescind an employment offer to House Speaker Mark Eves concluded Thursday. That didn’t stop at least two House members’ plans to draft impeachment orders against the governor.
For the most part, the committee supported the findings in the report, which have not been in question since the controversy started this summer: LePage and his staff threatened to end their support for Good Will-Hinckley — which was seen widely as a threat to withhold about $530,000 in discretionary state funding — unless the organization withdrew an employment contract with Eves to be its next president.
While there was little disagreement on that point, a bit of a fight among normally congenial committee members erupted over whether Good Will-Hinckley’s hiring process was fair. Last month, questioning of Bill Brown, an Eves employee who serves on the board of the Maine Academy of Natural Science, a public charter school operated by Good Will-Hinckley, was halted by a majority of the committee who felt Brown’s involvement was outside the scope of the investigation.
Republicans have pointed to Brown’s testimony as evidence that Eves gained an unfair advantage in the hiring process and received information from Brown that allowed him to make a more favorable impression on the Good Will-Hinckley board.
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Maine does not have a lieutenant governor, so Sen. Michael Thibodeau (R-Waldo) would take over. 
