Maine AG says mural removal is ‘government speech’
Posted April 11, 2011, at 12:03 p.m.
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TweetPORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s attorney general says the LePage administration was exercising its right to “government speech” removing a labor history mural from the Labor Department headquarters.
Attorney General William Schneider filed an objection Monday to a federal lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order aimed at restoring the mural to its original location.
Schneider said the lawsuit presents a political — not legal — issue on “where the government