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Tribes feud with Janet Mills on nominees to state body overseeing historic settlement

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Gov. Janet Mills has been replacing the state's contingent after five members did not seek reappointment. Commission members weighed in ahead of Thursday's Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings by providing several names of preferred candidates. The tension during what is normally a straightforward confirmation process is the latest example of how Mills and the four federally recognized tribes have sparred for years.

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Tribes feud with Janet Mills on nominees to state body overseeing historic settlement

AUGUSTA, Maine — Members of a Maine commission on state-tribal relations took offense Thursday to Gov. Janet Mills nominating three people to the panel over their preferred candidates.That opposition, expressed in a letter from several members of the Maine-Indian Tribal State Commission, was “extraordinary” and unusual, the Democratic governor’s top attorney said Thursday during a confirmation hearing for the three nominees — Lloyd Cuttler of Ca…

1 month ago·Bangor, United States

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