The hubris of yet another privileged white male to believe that he, as a college dropout, is qualified more than a female who has had a huge career as a prosecutor, Maine’s attorney general for eight years, state legislator and governor for eight years!

Graham Platner should drop out of this primary in some shred of introspective humility but, unfortunately, other privileged males write op-eds like “What I haven’t yet heard from Graham Platner and Janet Mills” (Nov. 16).

Janet Mills was Maine’s first female criminal prosecutor and she was the first female district attorney in New England, elected three times as district attorney for Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties. She became Maine’s first female governor, the first Maine gubernatorial candidate to be elected with at least 50% of the vote since Angus King in 1998 and the first to win at least 50% of the vote for a first term since Kenneth M. Curtis in 1966. She received over 320,000 votes, more than any governor in the state’s history.

It is time to stop glorifying this young white male as a contender when he has not even a whiff of the female’s qualifications.

Kiki Tidwell
York