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Canadian Cruz picked up almost all of Maine's delegates during the state's Republican convention on Saturday--but Maine Gov. Paul LePage is crying foul, saying the Cruz campaign reneged on a promise to support a so-called "unity ticket" of candidates.
Of the 20 delegates from the state, Cruz supporters were selected for 19 of those slots--the 20th is LePage.
"We reached a deal with Cruz's national campaign to put up a unity slate that would honor the wishes of the thousands of Mainers who voted at caucus," LePage said in a statement obtained by CNN. "But Cruz's Northeast Political Director David Sawyer lied to us and broke the deal. Sawyer stabbed us in the back, reneged on the unity slate, and betrayed the people of Maine."
LePage added that Cruz's campaign is "run by greedy political hooligans."
The "unity ticket" of candidates, which the campaigns agreed to, would have assured that delegate slots went to supporters of each candidate on a proportional basis--in other words, to correspond with the candidates' levels of support in the Maine caucuses back in March. That would have allocated 12 to Cruz, 9 to Trump and 2 to Kasich.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/maine-gov-lepage-ted-cruzs-campaign-hooligans-reneged-on-delegate-promise/