GOP: Complaints about anonymous news website 'without merit'
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Republican Party's executive director said Tuesday that an ethics claim alleging GOP involvement in a conservative website that posts right-slanted news is "completely without merit."
The Maine Democratic Party accused the Maine Examiner of being a GOP-backed website masquerading as a news organization and asked the Maine Ethics Commission to investigate alleged campaign finance violations.
Democrats pointed to Republican involvement because metadata on some of the photos indicates they came from GOP Executive Director Jason Savage. The template used to create the website and error logs are also linked to someone going by the username "jasonsavage207," Democrats contend.