AUGUSTA, Maine — The Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee has delayed a decision on a request to expand the panel’s probe into Gov. Paul LePage’s threat to cut off funding to the Good Will-Hinckley organization after it hired Maine House Speaker Mark Eves as its president.
Three lawmakers asked that reports about LePage forcing the president of the World Acadian Congress to resign be investigated as well. But the panel decided to keep its investigative group, the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability, focused on the Good Will-Hinckley matter.
“We still need to gather some more preliminary information in here from some more people before we are ready to decide on proceeding with a review,” Rep. Chuck Kruger, D-Thomaston, who co-chairs the committee, said.
Sen. Roger Katz, R-Augusta, who also co-chairs the panel, said members did not want to delay the Good Will-Hinckley investigation, which is due to be completed before the Sept. 8 meeting of the panel.
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