Alan Caron (column, “LePage’s temporary insanity,” June 12) needs help to climb out of his Paul LePage rut.

The governor is not a sweet-talking politician. As a kid, he brought himself up on the streets of Maine. LePage is unable to promise contrary platitudes out of both sides of his mouth simultaneously.

LePage reminds me of Marine Corps drill instructors, Mamlee and Collins, veterans of Korean battlefields who administered “tough love” to recruits at Parris Island. They polished me, who was bullied in high school, into a 19-year-old, 136-pound soldier with a PFC stripe on my sleeve and a sharpshooter’s badge on my chest.

Gov. Paul LePage got re-elected to attain three goals: Tax relief, welfare reform and less government spending. He rightfully chides Maine Democrats who are bending over backwards to take money from nursing homes and spend it on undocumented immigrants. Sinful.

My wife of 54 years has been in a nursing home seven months. She’s a 36-year-cancer survivor, in the last stage of Alzheimer’s after 13 years and in the last stage of kidney malfunction. Her level of nursing home care is sacred. I’m cried out, but still able to see red when politicians shortchange nursing homes.

John Benoit

Manchester