HAMPDEN, Maine — Negative campaign robocalls aimed at two candidates for the Town Council paid for by a political action committee formed by the mayor and her husband apparently have sparked a trio of requests for executive sessions that will be conducted during Monday night’s council meeting, according to the agenda.
The meeting is taking place at 7 p.m. at the municipal building. It will be streamed live on the Hampden website.
During the executive sessions, councilors will consider whether unidentified members have violated the town’s code of ethics, and if so, they may follow up with no-confidence votes in open session, the agenda indicates.
One of the potential violations will be discussed at the request of Councilor Thomas Brann. Two other possible breaches will be discussed at the request of Mayor Carol Duprey.
The agenda does not specify which councilor or councilors are being accused of violating the town’s ethics code, but Brann did ask during an Oct. 6 meeting that a no-confidence vote be conducted for Duprey.
That was largely because of the negative campaign robocalls made on Sept. 30 by a political action committee established in August by the mayor and her husband, Rep. Brian Duprey, who is seeking re-election to his state House seat and who is running for a seat on the Regional School Unit 22 board on Election Day.
The robocalls were targeted at councilors Ivan McPike and Jean Lawlis, who are running for re-election, and blamed them for a 10 percent increase in property taxes over the last two years.
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