Indiana Republican Richard Mourdock said recently that pregnancies resulting from rape are “something that God intended to happen.”

When flying combat missions in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and ’70s, we all knew that if we had to eject from a crippled aircraft, the command authority in the war zone would pull out all the stops and allocate whatever assets were required to rescue downed airmen, if at all feasible.

I read with utter amazement the quote in Wednesday’s paper attributed to Peter Thompson of the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce that “the chamber stays out of partisan political issues.”

I’m disappointed that two weeks before Election Day there has been no reporting or discussion about the Questions 2-5 bond initiatives.

I have nothing against religion, unless it is organized. The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints, are extremely organized.

This election, I hope people will consider what Paul LePage and the Republicans have done the past two years.

I am supporting Susan Longley for re-election to the position of Waldo County Judge of Probate.

Campaign finance controversies have been with us a very long time. Teddy Roosevelt in 1906 said, “Let individuals contribute (to campaigns) as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.”

Pamela Boivin and Joanne Dunlap, Democratic candidates for House 83 and Senate 18, would bring to Augusta a wealth of experience building careers and serving people, and a sense of fairness which recognizes that Mainers are in this together.