Cain right choice
Our family met Emily Cain a few years ago, and we’ve been fortunate enough to become friends with her and her husband. If you’ve ever met Cain, you know what you see is what you get. She’s warm, friendly, educated, compassionate and genuinely concerned about the people of Maine. She’s come up through the ranks with the goal of helping not just folks in her district, but the state as a whole. She has never let politics stand in the way of doing what’s right. She has determination and a positive attitude in all that she does.
In a few short weeks, we will be going to the polls to elect a person to represent us in the 2nd Congressional District. We want a person at the table who is articulate and respectful, and will stay until the job is done. We went to send a person to Washington who is hard working and honest, not someone who cuts people down and supports his own personal interests. Join us in sending Cain to Washington on Nov.4.
Aaron and Renee Gilman
Enfield
Move past doom, gloom
I am a Clean Election candidate for House District 131 running to serve Dedham, Otis, Orland, Penobscot, Prospect, Verona Island and Stockton Springs. I have served people as an educator and community volunteer all my adult life. As a member of the 124th Legislature, I know how to craft legislation for the benefit of people in my towns. I will work full time to represent those folks with information, intelligence and wisdom. I will reply to emails, phone calls and will read all bills before I vote on them.
Four issues that must be addressed immediately are: Medicaid expansion; restoration of full revenue sharing to towns; funding of education; and a commitment to bonding issues for our present and future. I wrote about a number of issues in blog essays at my website veronicamagnan.com. Please read them.
As a person of moderation, call me a Margaret Chase Smith Democrat. I can help restore the confidence of Mainers in Augusta. I’ll work across the aisles to find the best solutions to our problems. I did this before and I will do it again.
I believe that my opponent, Karl Ward, who supports Gov. Paul LePage and has already spent more than $42,000 on his campaign, provides a completely different ideology and a clear difference between us politically. It’s time for us to shake off the doom, gloom, scapegoating and blaming of the past four years and plot a course toward a better more optimistic future for ourselves, our children and grandchildren.
Veronica Garvey Magnan
Sandy Point
Cain on Nov. 4
I first met Emily Cain several years ago at a health care forum held at my downtown bookshop. I was impressed then by the depth of her knowledge of the subject and her ideas for improving health care in the U.S.
I’ve since heard Bruce Poliquin blast Obamacare, but my own experience has been entirely positive. As a self-employed businessman, I’ve gone from corporate, profit-driven Anthem with its ever escalating premiums and $15,000 deductibles per person, with little or no payments for annual checkups, doctor visits or any medical care, to our present community-owned nonprofit insurance with a maximum deductible of $4,000 per person, with free annual checkups and significant reductions and co-pays for doctor visits at a cost of less than half the price of Anthem’s premiums. There’s no comparison.
When I sprained my wrist after a fall last winter, the doctor’s visit cost $25 rather than the $125 I would have had to pay under Anthem’s miserly policy coverage.
I know Cain will work to protect and improve Obamacare, not dismantle it as Poliquin promises to do. I don’t want to go back to being subject to corporate health insurance that fattens the CEOs’ wallets and leaves the insured paying all the bills. That’s one of many reasons I’ll be voting for Cain to represent the people of the 2nd District on Nov. 4.
Bill Lippincott
Hampden
Baiting not sporting
I am a gun owner and from a family with a long tradition of hunting. But, I’m disgusted how hunting in Maine has evolved from the times in my youth when I hunted with my father. When I was growing up, we treated wildlife we hunted with respect. My father and grandfather taught us about the habits of our game animals. We tracked game to understand their natural movements in the wild — that was required to be a successful hunter. We learned respect for the animals and our environment through the process of hunting.
None of my forefathers would think it fair play to set up feeding stations of garbage or food to create a killing ground for slaughter. And I couldn’t print what they would say if they were aware that some folks today think it is sportsmanlike to put donuts and garbage out to attract bears to shoot while they rummage in a barrel. But the sense would be, “Real hunters don’t bait anything.”
Maine has a few small lodge businesses that cater to out–of-state folks who have no appreciation for our hunting traditions or natural wildlife. They’re not hunters, just gun owners who pretend to hunt for a trophy. It’s not hunting to shoot an animal you have lured with human garbage — it’s just slaughter.
Let’s demand politicians help us preserve our open forests and traditions rather than try to convince us that this kind of baiting is sportsmanlike or real hunting. Vote Yes on Question 1.
Raymond E. Durkee
Castine
Vote Baldacci
I have had the pleasure of working with Joe Baldacci for two years on the Bangor City Council. I am writing in support of Baldacci’s re-election to the city council on Nov. 4.
He is a hardworking, pragmatic, caring, effective leader fighting for Bangor and Bangor taxpayers on a whole range of issues that our city and state have had to face. He led the initiative in 2012 for the city to go from a 27-year repaving program (meaning only once every 27 years would a street be repaved) to a 13-year repaving program as part of a three year, $6 million infrastructure initiative.
Baldacci was born and raised in Bangor and he is raising his family here. Baldacci will continue to be an effective voice for Bangor and for our interests as a community.
Sue Hawes
Bangor
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