Dump Trump
Why are the press, presidential candidates and Republicans unwilling to take on Donald Trump? He is a thinned-skinned, vindictive, whining, egotistical bully who is out to buy the presidency of the United States.
Trump admits he buys political access. He also says his four bankruptcies are all within the manipulated U.S. laws. He has no realistic agenda.
Trump has taken civility, respect and decency to a new low. He is, in my opinion, a chauvinist and a scurrilous man.
We need the likes of former U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith to give a “ Declaration of Conscience” regarding the Trump candidacy.
Doris M. Russell
Castine
Collins takes right path on Iran
Concerning the Iran nuclear deal, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is taking the responsible path, as she always does, when faced with voting on an important national issue. The responsible path is taking time to read and review all information available, talk to as many of her constituents as possible and make a decision without undue partisan or media assertions that what is responsible is their position.
Collins will make her position known when she has finished this process and she will have my continued support as a responsible senator, whatever she decides.
Ralph Leonard
Old Town
LeClair for city council
I have succeeded in qualifying to have my name placed on the Nov. 3 ballot for election to the Bangor City Council.
I graduated from St. Mary’s High School in Orono in 1960, the last graduating class at St. Mary’s. I am a veteran of the U.S. Navy, having served between 1960-1966 during the Cold War. I was on board an ammunition ship (USS Great Sitkin) during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
My goals for the City Council are: transparency; accountability; no increase in property taxes; being open to public suggestions; reduce financial waste; do not cater to special interest groups; update the city charter regarding attendance and retirement; equal support and enforcement of services for all citizens; reduction of code restrictions on businesses; spend taxpayer money wisely; serve in citizens’ interests; review and reduce waste in both the city and school budgets; listen to citizen issues and resolve them effectively; promote citizen’s involvement in city government; use a common-sense approach to council matters; ask the questions no one else will ask; and seek “win-win” for all parties.
I would appreciate Bangor’s vote Nov. 3 for the Bangor City Council.
Paul LeClair
Bangor
Maine should fire LePage
Gov. Paul LePage is asking Mainers who wish he’d sail away into the sunset to email his office. And if the people want him to leave, he said he will. He’s setting everybody up, kind of like that letter they send to alleged law breakers, telling them they’ve won a prize. They show up, they get arrested.
Everything LePage does is vindictive. Don’t think for a minute he won’t make all who send requests to leave sorry they did. If it looks like impeachment is warranted, he’ll resign.
We deserve better. Who does the stuff this guy does daily with no consequences? We are the ones paying for his actions, not him. Dictators think they are invincible. He forgets who hired him. We did. Anybody else in Maine would have been fired long ago.
He has proven he can’t handle the pressure of being a good citizen. He is everything our parents taught us not to be. Since his first day in office, he has attacked working people, labor unions, the less fortunate among us. He forgets his roots as a poor child in Maine.
The state of affairs for the average person in Maine is dismal at best, “We the people” deserve his best effort. It would seem that LePage has some serious issues that are prohibiting him from serving all the people of Maine, in a stately manor.
His days of being a bully in “our” china cabinet, must come to a screeching halt.
Dennis Mitchell
Glenburn