My commitment to my wife: 40 years, four kids, four states, 12 moves, 14 jobs between us. We’ve finally settled in South Bristol and have never been happier. That’s one kind of commitment.

Holly Stover exemplifies another, more public sort of commitment. At DHHS, she fought for the people of Maine — and wept when LePage cut benefits to 70,000 Mainers.

Now, in her day-job(s), she’s the director of operations for the Community Resource Council in Boothbay and development director of Lincoln County Dental, helping provide a hand-up, not a handout, while supplying essential oral care to those who cannot otherwise afford it.

As our representative, Holly stood shoulder-to-shoulder with small businesses: brick and mortar and marine: lobstermen and women, the suppliers to support them, and the consumers who enjoy their harvests. She stood with them and up for them to deliver critical funding after catastrophic storms last January.

Let’s return Rep. Holly Stover to Augusta in November.

Geoff Bates

South Bristol