Maine Gov LePage Trump hotel receipts — released after 2 years — show filet mignon dinners, $1100 a night rooms at taxpayer expense. Via @PressHeraldhttps://www.pressherald.com/2019/02/17/maine-paid-for-40-rooms-at-trump-hotel-for-lepage-staff/ …
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Maine comptroller staffer questioned LePage’s Trump DC hotel spending: “the room cost is WAY more than the allowed amount. He is not attending a conference of any type...so the normal exemptions (spending limits) do not apply.” Via
@PressHerald https://www.pressherald.com/2019/02/17/maine-paid-for-40-rooms-at-trump-hotel-for-lepage-staff/ …#mepoliticsShow this thread -
Maine Gov LePage - who later made an unannounced trip to Montenegro — also planned a trip to Russia in June 2017 to promote Russian tourism to the state, but it was scrapped after fees, visas purchased Via
@PressHeraldhttps://www.pressherald.com/2019/02/17/maine-paid-for-40-rooms-at-trump-hotel-for-lepage-staff/ …Show this thread -
Maine taxpayers also paid hundreds of dollars for LePage’s adult children - who were not employed by the state - to stay at Trump’s DC hotel and Quebec’s Chateau Frontenac. Via
@PressHerald#mepoliticshttps://www.pressherald.com/2019/02/17/maine-paid-for-40-rooms-at-trump-hotel-for-lepage-staff/ …Show this thread -
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#FOIA law is toothless, so my@pressherald colleagues@thisdog and@KevinMillerPPH didn't get Gov LePage's Trump DC travel receipts until after he left office, nearly two years after request. Background on that from last month: https://www.pressherald.com/2019/01/07/taxpayer-cost-of-lepages-trump-hotel-stay-to-finally-be-released/ …#mepoliticsShow this thread -
Former Gov. LePage tells Maine radio station his June 2017 Russia trip was canceled because he was denied a visa. (The aborted trip was among the many details revealed by
@pressherald from a FOAA request LePage refused to comply with for nearly two years.) https://www.pressherald.com/2019/02/18/lepage-denies-knowing-he-paid-up-to-1100-a-night-at-trump-hotel/ …Show this thread -
Former Maine Gov. LePage claims he didn't know the cost of his $1100 a night stay at Trump's DC hotel, revealed in a
@pressherald FOAA request his office failed to comply with for nearly two years. https://www.pressherald.com/2019/02/18/lepage-denies-knowing-he-paid-up-to-1100-a-night-at-trump-hotel/ …#MePoliticsShow this thread
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This is sickening.
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