At a town hall meeting in Augusta, Gov. Paul LePage told the audience he will be calling the Legislature into special session this summer.
“I’m going to calling them back this summer because they want me to do four things, they passed laws to do four things. One, they want me to give raise to people at Riverview, but they didn’t give me the money,” he says. “They want me to do a drug exchange program, they took the money out. They want me to do a study on wages, but they took the money out.”
LePage says he is particularly upset at the nearly $2.4 million the Legislature gave the county jails over his veto. He says that money comes out of the Medicaid program and will cause waiting lists for programs that benefit Maine seniors to grow.
“Maybe what I am looking at right now is taking all the people in nursing homes and putting them in jail, take everybody in jail and put them in the nursing homes. Cause if you want good service, you got to go to jail,” he says. “Because they get three square meals a day and full medical and the people in the nursing homes are not getting the proper resources.”
