The Bangor Daily News recently reported that Bruce Poliquin called his opponent, Jared Golden, a “young radical that embraces a socialist agenda” in a recent TV debate. Not once did he do this. Not twice but six times. Why? Because Poliquin is reciting the talking points handed him by Republican political consultants. The same words […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
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Protecting people's rights
This is in response to Ralph Harder’s letter (Oct. 24), “Who will protect people’s rights.” I will reference his own words about the angry “mob” mentality being the reason the Pledge of Allegiance contains the statement: “… to the republic for which it stands.” The United States is a republic intended to be governed by […]
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Jared Golden for working people
Jared Golden understands hard work and public service. In the Maine Legislature, he fought to improve benefits for fellow veterans, increased wages for workers and expanded access to health care. Throughout his military service and public career, Golden fights for a country that takes care of working families, public servants and the elderly. Bruce Poliquin […]
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Vote 'yes' on Question 5
The community colleges are an important and necessary asset to their communities. Most of our work force comes from the community college system. The students fill highly skilled jobs in machining and administrative roles and are compensated with good pay and benefits. Voting “yes” on Question 5 will help to expand access to qualified employees […]
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Question 1 important for seniors
It is the time for voters to pay attention to Question 1. Passage of the initiative is so important for all Maine senior citizens, veterans and people with disabilities. That is one of the important components in the initiative when it comes to elderly citizens’ lives. The initiative would help senior citizens who need support, […]
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Be prepared when time to vote
I attended candidate’s night in Poland looking for proactive, forward-looking candidates to represent me. The forum was educational. Whether or not climate change is human-caused, people need to make plans to live with its consequences. As my Scout leader always said: “Be prepared.” Maine’s woods and working waterfronts are state treasures. The state is undergoing […]
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Wake up to the right-wing agenda
Like a lot of senior citizens, I paid into Social Security for a long time. I received my first card at age 12, when I traveled to work for Mario’s Pizza in Poland for a starting 50 cents an hour. For more than five decades I paid into that institution, not realizing early on that […]
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Vote to preserve our freedoms
Americans enjoy freedoms that many others risk their lives to attain, yet people cannot get off their butts to vote to preserve those freedoms. The United States has a president who would like to manage/control those freedoms for his own narcissistic uses; and a governor who thinks the Maine state budget is his personal budget […]
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Disgraceful ultra-extreme rhetoric
I was shocked and disgusted by the intensity of a recent poster circulated by Poliquin for Congress boldly labelling Jared Golden as a liar. Poliquin’s biennial emergence from his lair at election time spouting such negatively vehement, un-civil discourse epitomizes the pervasive problem of extreme polarization paralyzing politics and government today. Poliquin and his minions […]
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In support of Question 1
My experience of being a new Mainer working with Mainers, seniors, veterans and people with disabilities from different backgrounds helped me understand my new home, Maine, better. I am writing in support of Question 1, the Universal Homecare Initiative, because I am a home care worker and have firsthand experience about the struggles of many […]