For fellow Republicans from Maine’s 2nd Congressional District who would like to return the seat to the GOP, there is one clear choice in the upcoming primary election: Kevin Raye.

He has the legislative experience, the informed perspective and the broad appeal that will lead voters to the Republican side of the ticket come November. Many career politicians from both parties have figured that out in the past. Some names that come to mind are Margaret Chase-Smith, William Cohen, George Mitchell, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and others.

Bruce Poliquin has branded Raye as a liberal in many of the negative communications with which I have been inundated during the past days. I would simply say to Poliquin that from where he stands on the far right, everyone else to the left is indeed a liberal.

Norman Ferguson, Fryeburg