New LePage threat to stall bonds imperils road repairs, thousands of jobs

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine State Treasurer Terry Hayes said Friday that Gov. Paul LePage has refused to approve the sale of $117 million in bonds funding hundreds of construction projects and backfilling $54.5 million in funds that were borrowed internally from state government’s cash pool earlier this year.

Hayes said the bonds are scheduled to be sold Tuesday in New Jersey but that the deadline for LePage to sign off on them so they can be closed in time passed Thursday afternoon.

“The governor doesn’t have any more time,” Hayes said Friday evening. “He has already agreed to everything that was in the sale, but I can’t make him do it. I spoke with him yesterday afternoon, and he was adamant.”

LePage’s office and a Maine Department of Transportation spokesman did not respond to questions from the Bangor Daily News on Friday afternoon.

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[dlk]

1. What is Wrong with LePage? Public Service is the Last Place He Belongs!

LePage is the poster boy for those who should never go anywhere near public service. They want to tear down everything they can in the name of their extremist ideology. He is a danger to the public he swore to serve.

[Thekaspervote]

2. Hey Maine citizens you gotta vote that guy out. Nothing but trouble

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. He's had 2 terms, but he has a successor running this Nov.

[beachbum bob]

3. Proves the point you can't trust republicans....

I hope Maine democrats hammer that home

[vlyons]

4. Why is he opposed to the bond sale?

Does he want to avoid the debt?

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. It's a power play. He likes to let us know who is really the boss. I hate

him as much as Trump, and can't stand that so many people here voted for both of them. Ignorant!!

[dhill926]

7. quite the public servant....

vindictive little fuck....

[dembotoz]

8. trump has shown paying your bills is not the gop way

[paleotn]

9. Thank god Maine approved rank choice voting...

eliminating the dynamic that allowed LeFuckwade to win not once, but twice. Enough of this independent spoiler bullshit and knuckle heads winning only by a plurality.

[Mc Mike]

10. Repuglican, nihilist, arsonist.