Maine legislators on both sides of the aisle are expressing dismay over allegations that Republican Gov. Paul LePage threatened to pull more than $500,000 in state funds from a nonprofit-run charter school if it installed a top Democratic lawmaker as its president, writes the Associated Press.
House Speaker Mark Eves was to have taken leadership of the Good Will-Hinckley school on July 1, but the institution said Wednesday it is looking for a new president so as not to be caught up in a “political controversy,” the Bangor Daily News reports.
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