BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 28, 2022
Former Gov. Paul LePage found some agreement with the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine on thorny conservation matters before hammering the group that gave him an incomplete grade on a 2022 candidate survey. The episode puts both the Republican seeking a Blaine House return and the 8,000-member alliance in a strange position in the last 40 days of the election cycle. The gun-rights group generally supports conservative candidates and causes but the former governor issued a statement saying the group “wanted me to promise them $40 million” for a project for a better survey grade. “We have had multiple individuals listen to the entire interview,” said David Trahan, the group’s executive director and a former Republican state legislator. “We can’t find where his accusations make any sense.”