Vote Vitelli

Our political environment seems to reach new lows every day. I say to myself each morning that it can’t get any worse, but each day it does. Our national political news dominates our experience so much that it drowns out local and state news that effect our lives much more directly.

In this distressing climate there are bright spots. Women, more than ever before, are stepping up, running for offices, doing the hard work of governing despite state leaders who imitate national immaturity. I see women and men who will not stand for the politics of division and who are energized to get into the fray. One of our own leading women who has been quietly getting the job done is running again this fall for state senate. Eloise Vitelli has been a sane and effective voice for us for a long time and has showed us during the last two years what a positive force looks like in the state senate. When the governor vetoed some 53 bills including one that would have expanded healthcare to thousands of Mainers, she worked tirelessly across party lines to override it. She has been a voice for women, small businesses and the less fortunate among us and has done the unceremonious, and tedious work of speaking for us and getting the job done.

We have seen conclusively that governing is not a job for amateurs. This profession requires experience, knowledge of the way our system works and the fortitude to keep at it until it’s done. Eloise has proven time and time again that she has that force of character. There is much that remains to be done in our state and it will require someone with her experience to do it. The 23rd district is very fortunate to have such a consistent, able and dedicated senator as Eloise Vitelli. We are all in this together, as she has said. She is a bright spot is all of this clatter and confusion and one who I hope will be elected this fall to another term.

Frank Roberts,
Phippsburg

Ms. Kovacs (Times Record letter to the editor, Aug. 1, “Kavanaugh nomination a threat to women’s health”) requests in her letter that she should be respected in her decisions and not be questioned or judged in regards to her personal life style choices. Yet she desires taxpayers to contribute to paying for the results of her choices.

I believe she, and all of us, should accept the responsibilities and results of our personal and free will choices and pay for them ourselves.

Gregory Doak,
Woolwich