Demeritt, citing ‘unresolved business’, resigns as LePage aide

[Maine-ah]

Source: BDN

AUGUSTA — Dan Demeritt, the director of communications for Maine Gov. Paul LePage, will resign following news that he is facing foreclosure on five buildings.

“I have several unresolved business issues that need my immediate and direct attention,” Demeritt said, according to a press release from the governor’s office. “I am resigning from Gov. LePage’s staff to attend to these matters. I wish the governor and his staff complete success.”

Demeritt was the communications director for the Maine House Republicans in 2002-’03 and served on U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ staff as a legislative aide in Washington and as a state office director in Lewiston. He was the political director of the first Collins for Senator Campaign in 199

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LePage aide Demeritt facing foreclosure on five buildings

http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011/04/15/politics/lepage-aide-demeritt-facing-foreclosure-on-five-buildings/

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s communications director is facing possible foreclosure on five buildings he owns including an apartment house destroyed by arson last week.

The Kennebec Journal says Savings Bank of Maine wants a default judgment against Dan Demeritt. Demeritt says he’s working directly with the bank and that he’s “not running away” from his debts.

The pizza restaurant owner links unpaid taxes, bills and mortgage loans to business difficulties that began almost 2½ years ago when he expanded his property holdings. He says he never envisioned pizza sales dropping 45 percent. Last fall, he closed one of his two pizza restaurant locations.

Demeritt, who describes himself as a landlord and small-business owner, is a Colby College graduate and holds an MBA from the University of Southern Maine.