LePage's final year in office included 39 days in Florida, $33,000 trip to Montenegro

[jpak]

https://www.pressherald.com/2019/07/08/lepages-final-year-included-39-days-in-florida-and-a-33000-trip-to-montenegro/

Last August, then-Gov. Paul LePage had a serious cardiac event in Canada.

Not until the next day did anybody outside his inner circle know he’d been out of the country, and it would be more than a month before the public learned he had experienced a medical issue serious enough to require him to be evacuated via LifeFlight to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

The New Brunswick trip was one of many out-of-state journeys last year that weren’t disclosed until after they had been completed. Other trips were never disclosed, including an overnight September stay at the Trump International Hotel to attend a secretive meeting at the White House and a day trip to Montreal from his Florida home to visit executives of Hydro-Quebec.

The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram recently obtained the former governor’s 2018 calendar and hundreds of pages of travel-related documents via public records requests. The documents shed light on a number of trips the governor took pains to conceal ahead of time, including a trade mission to the Balkan nation of Montenegro that cost Maine taxpayers more than $33,000.

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Pig

Yup

[matt819]

1. A corrupt republican

Who’d a thunk it?

[marble falls]

2. Shocked. Not too much. But shocked. Pigs get fed. Hogs get slaughtered.