Maine Governor claims U of M wind turbine is rigged with "a little motor that turns the blades"

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10. I’d bet he simply lies

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[font face=Serif][font size=5]Federal Labor Officials Investigate LePage Administration[/font]

04/17/2013 Reported By: A.J. Higgins

[font size=3]Governor Paul LePage has announced the creation of a blue ribbon task force to examine Maine's unemployment compensation system. The news comes a week after reports surfaced that Gov. Paul LePage may have tried to bully state labor department hearing officers into favoring employers in disputed unemployment-benefit cases. It also coincides with a visit to Maine's capitol by U.S. Department of Labor investigators.

Gov. Paul LePage's announcement of his decision to establish a Blue Ribbon Commission to investigate Maine's entire unemployment compensation system has been eclipsed by news that the State Labor Department is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor. The governor's office would neither confirm nor deny the federal investigation rumors and state labor officials also declined comment. But the visitors log at the state Department of Labor indicated the federal officials were there Tuesday. And State Sen. Troy Jackson, the Democratic assistant Senate Majority leader, said he got his information from the top.

"The commissioner of Labor told us yesterday that U.S. DOL is here investigating...this particular incident," Jackson said.

Allegations that the governor had attempted to bully the federally-funded state hearing officers surfaced last week when the Lewiston Sun Journal published a report citing confidential sources who suggested LePage bullied eight labor hearing officers during a meeting with them last month. According to the report, the governor wanted employers to be favored in an unemployment claims appeal process that's supposed to be impartial. Members of the governor's staff and the labor department staunchly maintain LePage did nothing of the sort. Instead, they said LePage was simply attempting to alert the hearing officers to complaints he had received from employers who had given up on an appeals system they believe is weighted against them.

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