First, I’d like to thank Mike Tipping for his column of July 11 (“Just what the heck was Gov. Paul LePage thinking?”).

While I’m shocked by Gov. LePage’s recent actions, I’m almost equally shocked by much of the reporting associated with these actions.

One example is the failure of many reporters to fairly analyze the content of Attorney General Janet Mills’ opinion or to compare it to Cynthia Montgomery’s.

Instead, bias has been interjected into many articles by describing Mills as frequently “at odds with the governor” or quoting LePage spokesman Peter Steele’s description of Mills as “hand-picked” by Democratic legislators.

No mention is made of Montgomery’s agenda or that she was hand picked by the governor to be his chief legal counsel. It’s not fair reporting, and worse, it’s incredibly shallow.

While there are exceptions, most of the reporting has trivialized the severity of this governor’s behavior.

Now it has come to a point where the governor has indicated that he will not enforce the recently enacted laws. That’s a clear and serious violation of his constitutional duty. I’ve yet to read one article that calls him out on this.

I feel we are moving quickly to a serious constitutional crisis in Maine because of the actions of our current governor. It’s made worse by the fact that there is a lot of work that needs to be done in this state.

Among other things, this state has a lot of children who regularly don’t have enough to eat. We simply don’t have time or the money to tolerate a governor who does not want to follow the rules or do his job.

Stacey H. Shields

Rockland

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