I hunted deer in the “Big Woods” in Maine while staying at my uncle’s hunting lodge after I returned from Vietnam serving with the Marines, which brings me to senatorial candidate Graham Platner. Marine Platner is a disloyal disgrace to the Corps who violated his sworn oath to defend the United States. He and his […]
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Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Remember that Janet Mills is still on the ballot | Letter
Lead-ins to Press Herald columnists’ remarks seem pretty sexist these days. “Controversies aside,” Douglas Rooks says, “Graham Platner’s message threatens everything the ruling class has foisted…” Then there’s Steve Collins, “Unfortunately for Graham Platner, he needs women on his side to win….” Reducing Graham Platner’s character flaws to “controversies” — the Nazi tattoo, his false […]
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Waiting for the pipe to burst on Graham Platner | Letter
Drip by drip the stories come out about Graham Platner. Are we waiting for the pipe to burst and flood the hold before we come to our senses? If we think all the negative stories are out there, just wait until the biggest guns of the Republican Party take aim on the oyster farmer. They’ll […]
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Judgment of Shah’s supporters was inappropriate | Letter
I find Kathleen Sullivan’s recent op-ed concerning Dr. Nirav Shah (“Is a warm, fuzzy feeling enough to make Nirav Shah governor?” May 27) troubling. The great majority of professional mental health providers avoid diagnosing or psychoanalyzing individuals who are not in direct treatment with them. That Ms. Sullivan opts to psychoanalyze Shah supporters en masse, […]
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Maine’s social programs must incorporate accountability | Letter
With the HIV outbreak freshly on our minds, the statistics, costs and demonstrable failures are mounting up … sadly, along with the number of lives that are being forever affected. So people who demonstrate no independence in core competencies/components of living, and who are receiving tax or non-tax-funded food, shelter, healthcare/medicine, etc., have no accountability […]
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Coverage of Maine Senate candidates has been disappointing | Letter
Our news outlets have shortchanged the public.
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Thankful for Joe Baldacci’s leadership and support | Letter
While I serve professionally as executive director of the Maine Jewish Museum, I write here in my personal capacity as a member of Maine’s Jewish community to publicly thank state Sen. Joe Baldacci for his leadership and moral courage over many years of public service. Over the past several months, I — along with many […]
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Collins’ votes deserve same level of scrutiny as Platner’s choices | Letter
The Press Herald has apparently decided to perform a public service by publishing a detailed account of Graham Platner’s “controversies” since he announced his candidacy for the Senate seat now held by Susan Collins. I look forward to seeing, in the interest of full disclosure, a similar recounting of all Sen. Collins’ votes for nominees […]
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We volunteered because our leaders lied | Letter
In “Epitaphs of the War,” Rudyard Kipling wrote: “If any question why we died; Tell them, because our fathers lied.” Days after Memorial Day, while Maine families still carry the grief of those losses, Sen. Susan Collins continues to evade responsibility for one of the gravest foreign policy failures in modern American history. Collins voted […]
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Maine isn’t shackled to Platner | Letter
Maine doesn’t have to do this. The primary hasn’t happened yet, there’s no reason we, as a state, have to be shackled to Platner. As of writing this, his statements about self-pleasuring in public toilets are in the news. A person shouldn’t have to work so hard to discuss a Senate candidate in words a […]