LePage responds to Eves' appeal over charter school job

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage says his long-running dispute with Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves should be settled in the political arena, not in court.

In Friday filings in the U.S. Court of Appeals, LePage said he was exercising his executive budgeting activity when he said he'd withhold $1 million in "discretionary funding" if a Fairfield nonprofit operating a charter school hired Eves as president.