I met Democrat Shenna Bellows once, at a public hearing for a bill banning the placement of campaign signs in or next to cemeteries. I was impressed with her daring to threaten a lawsuit if the committee didn’t reject the bill outright.
She, as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Maine chapter, pronounced the bill unconstitutional, an infringement on free speech.
Her rant went on for several minutes. It didn’t matter that it’s against the law to put campaign signs on trees or traffic control devices or to paint them on rocks. It didn’t matter that placing a campaign sign in or next to a cemetery is appallingly disrespectful.
I don’t want a U.S. senator who gets her way by making threats. I don’t want a U.S. senator who has more respect for trees, rocks and traffic control devices than she has for the dead and their families.
Helen A. Shaw
Rockport
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