Why would a politician, who is supposed to represent Maine, decide to cut SNAP — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that benefits approximately 180,000 Mainers? Ask Bruce Poliquin. He voted to cut this program for the disabled and for the children whose parents can’t afford to give them lunch money. He voted to cut the program for the neediest people in society who need assistance.

According to the most recent report from the United States Department of Agriculture, the three-year average rate of “very low food security” — a condition in which a family regularly doesn’t have enough to eat — has increased to the point that Maine has statistically one of the highest rate of hunger in the nation and the highest in New England.

I am angry that politicians can get away with this.

Mainers need to vote Bruce Poliquin out of office.

Sidney Pew, East Andover