As I picked up the Times Record on Tuesday, May 5, and turned to page 2, I could hardly believe what I was about to read?

It looked as if some of our people in August’s state capitol forgot what the word respect means, and how they define it. The paper said that the LLAG (leading liberal activist group), otherwise known as the MPA (Maine’s People’s Alliance) was apologizing to one of their people — a gentleman named Dale Crafts, for the flier that had been put out. It also said the flier was paid for by the MPA.

Well, who pays you, Ben Chin, MPA’s top staffer? Also, it should never have been signed by the “Voters of Maine”. Everyone is not included in that signature as much as some of your would like to believe it is.

We teach our children not to bully, and to respect people in authority. We teach them not to judge. God keeps the books, and I know one day that Dale Crafts will not need that wheelchair, for he will “walk the streets of gold”.

I will not apologize for what I know to be right.

LaVerne R. Williams

Durham