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Maine legislature upholds LePage veto of Bar Harbor port authority bill
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28 March 2018 (Edited )

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Posted 28 March 2018:

Proponents of the bill may have been envisioning enlarging existing port facilities to accommodate larger cruise ships.

Opponents feared exactly that.

Gov. LePage characterized the Port Authority proposal as "a needless creation of bureaucracy," and the Legislature apparently agreed.

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