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September 1, 2010

‘Question of who to vote for is really very simple’


It is with great interest that I have been following your paper’s coverage of Libby Mitchell’s quest for the governorship. I fear that I am beginning to detect a hint of favoritism toward Mitchell, given the three positive writeups you gave her on Aug. 5, Aug. 9 and Aug. 10, and the space you allotted her on the opinion page (Aug. 15), where she bemoaned the influence of “big money” on Maine’s elections.

Ironic, is it not, that the big money interests she fears, which she attributes to the conservative Republican camp, is raising its head in the campaign of Eliot Cutler, a thinly disguised Democrat whose appeal is perhaps greatest to some intellectual quarters of the Democratic party.

In the meantime, Paul LePage, not depending on the dole like Mitchell, nor being wealthy like Cutler, is spending a goodly amount of his time hustling for money to keep his candidacy on track, while being savaged by certain members of the press for being “unresponsive” to their loaded questions.

The question of who to vote for is really very simple: If you want more government, more ineffectual government and higher taxes, you vote for Mitchell. If you want a lawyer who has all the answers, as well as answers to the questions you’ve never asked, vote for Cutler; if you want to diminish the size and role of state government, vote for LePage.



Lore H. Ford III

Whitefield

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