‘Robo-call’ against senator skewed the facts

Letters to the Editor

Published
April 12, 2011

‘Robo-call’ against senator skewed the facts

Last week, I received an automated phone call from a group known as Americans for Prosperity criticizing our local state senator, Sen. David Trahan, R-Waldoboro, about votes made in the Taxation Committee. The caller said Trahan voted “against family farms and against repealing the death tax.” Those who know Dave like I do knew there […]
Published
April 11, 2011

LePage supporter asks if he has ability to lead

My first-ever foray into politics was supporting Paul LePage’s quest to be governor. I attended rallies, donated money and spoke about LePage to everyone I met. I even put a sign on my lawn, which may not seem like a big thing to many, but for me it was a huge step in a direction […]
Published
April 11, 2011

LePage, so far, has created only 1 job: his daughter’s

Gov. Paul LePage removing the mural shows how out of touch he is. The governor really missed the boat on the significance of the “worker’s mural.” If he were to travel this nation, he would find that Maine has a reputation of having some of the hardest working people in America. Our workforce should be […]
Published
April 11, 2011

How one room in labor building got its name

I want to know which two communities in Maine are about to go bankrupt, as Gov. Paul LePage reported. Has he rescued them from the perils of financial ruin? If so, let’s give his administration kudos. If not, why not? How is LePage helping these communities stay afloat? Or were his remarks a lie to […]
Published
April 11, 2011

Calculating LePage’s input, draw from retirement plan

Gov. Paul LePage’s communications director wrote a letter to the editor published March 22 in which he protested the contents of a column by Mike Tipping. Dan Demeritt disagreed with Tipping’s column for mischaracterizing the governor’s failure to require the same increase in his contribution to his retirement in his budget that he did for […]

Published
April 11, 2011

Workers’ struggles are part of U.S., Maine history

Two views of the nature of workers’ struggles in the United States appeared in this paper on two consecutive days. On March 23, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis recounted the tragic story of 146 women and girls, poor workers in a New York City sweatshop in 1911. They all died in a fire while working, […]
Published
April 11, 2011

LePage’s actions mimic ‘behavior of tyrants’

It is distressing that Gov. Paul LePage has removed art from public view at the Department of Labor Complex. This is not the action of the government of a free society, which has fought to protect freedom of expression and freedom of speech, but has been the behavior of tyrants and dictators throughout history. Censorship […]
Published
April 10, 2011

LePage has, in fact, offered us his best side

Amidst all the hullabaloo caused by Gov. Paul LePage’s foot-in-mouth disease, we’ve managed to overlook one very gentlemanly gesture on his part. When he told the NAACP to “Kiss my butt,” he was offering them and us all his best side. David L. Mitchell Madison
Published
April 10, 2011

4th-grader thanks LePage ‘for all of his hard work’

I am 10 years old and in the fourth grade. My family has been teaching me about the history of our country. We discuss things that are happening around the country and in our state. My mom and Grammy have said that the people here have spent too much money, and now we can’t pay […]
Published
April 10, 2011

‘Must we negate one group to recognize another?’

The disrespect that Gov. Paul LePage is showing the labor and artist communities is frighteningly reminiscent of another time –1939. Is this, “Maine, the way life should be”? This is Maine after LePage; elected under false campaigning by 39 percent of the people who naively believed the stealth bully. Is it so difficult to honor […]

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