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Cutler camp calls trash rumor "sleazy"

Monday June 14, 2010 | 04:26 PM

Posted by Susan M. Cover scover@mainetoday.com

Earlier in the day, there was a post on As Maine Goes with a headline saying that someone had gone through Republican nominee Paul LePage's trash. When I clicked on it, it had already been taken down.

Apparently, it accused independent candidate Eliot Cutler of being behind the trashy research, prompting Cutler spokesman Ted O'Meara to put out this statement:

"I have heard from several people in the news media today that there are “rumors” out there that Cutler campaign has hired private investigators to go over tapes of Waterville city council meetings and to go through Mr. LePage’s personal trash. This is absolutely not true.

Whoever is very deliberately spreading these rumors must be trying to cover their own tracks because neither the Cutler campaign, nor anyone working on behalf of the Cutler campaign, has hired, nor will we hire, private investigators, nor do we have any interest whatsoever in going through Mr. LePage’s garbage. We also have not made any FOIA requests for information from the city of Waterville.

We have and will continue to wage a campaign based on Eliot’s plans for Maine and his qualifications to be Maine’s next governor. Like any campaign, we will conduct opposition research based on publicly available information. However, we will not engage in the sleazy tactics like those we are being accused of. If you are presented with these rumors, we hope that you will try to find out who is behind them."

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