As unpredictable as Rep. Jared Golden was in his current term, I sincerely feel that my 1967 Lewiston High classmate, Paul LePage, would be worse. Paul, in refusing to back Medicaid expansion, has blocked thousands of Mainers from receiving life-saving health care. What do Republicans have against citizens receiving decent health care? Bob MennealyAuburn
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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We are watching our democracy be destroyed | Letter
Help! America and democracy are dying! Independent (lovely and practical) Maine is being pulled down with them. Only three years ago, we were living contentedly along side our immigrants, who were working, paying taxes and joining our communities. We had health care. Our education was supported, from Head Start to university. We were helping to feed the […]
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Caught, but all for naught | Letter
News is all over social media about Maine’s Democrat governor, Janet Mills, being “caught” in multiple fraud cases involving her and her brother, but please pardon me if I don’t plan the ticker tape parade just yet. Adam Schiff was caught peddling a false narrative about Russian collusion to besmirch an incoming president and jam up […]
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US citizens should honor and respect the American flag | Letter
To the point. I don’t care which side someone is on, it’s never OK to fly the American flag upside down. I saw that at the protest in Wells on Saturday, Jan. 28, at the corner of routes 1 and 109, and I was offended! Maybe, just maybe, it was not an American flying it, […]
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Shah is more than qualified to be Maine’s next governor | Letter
Voters doing their due diligence will be aware of his impressive and well-rounded background.
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Susan Collins is no friend of immigrants and no moderate | Letter
Don’t fall for Susan Collins’ latest playacting as a moderate senator, bravely defending immigrant rights in Maine against Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She had nothing to do with Noem pausing the “surge.” This was strictly a political decision by the administration and the Republican Party to help with her reelection […]
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Rick Bennett will restore civility to governor’s seat | Letter
State politics here in Maine have suffered from a lack of civility we should expect from our chief executive. Gov. Mills’ natural propensity is taking swings at those she disagrees with in a prosecutorial manner, reflective of her profession. For many, it has been a long seven years of enduring one charge after another against […]
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A nagging question on being armed | Letter
As I celebrate my 94th birthday, I am troubled by a situation that keeps bopping in my brainlike a line from a song, which I do not like but which I cannot forget. It is legal to carry a firearm concealed in a backpack, in a holster, in one’s handbag, tucked into one’s belt. Presumably […]
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‘Just doing our job’ doesn’t apply to ICE excesses | Letter
People suddenly terrified of being on the wrong side of history may attempt to justify recent events as mistakes. Mistakes?
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Should we have to earn the right to affordable health care? | Letter
This is in response to a Jan. 27 letter (“Reality of health care worth examining“) that supported universal health care, but only for people “contingent with a healthy lifestyle.” The premise is that people who abuse their body get no health care, because they don’t deserve it. Does this mean that Trump would lose his […]