I have had it with this president. It is time to impeach President Donald Trump. He is inadequately prepared to be leading this country. It is bad enough that the president uses Twitter as the communication channel to the citizens of this great country, but when he uses his bully Twitter pulpit to demean more […]
Dennise Whitley
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Disdain for people’s health
I find it totally ironic that Gov. Paul LePage had bariatric surgery. The Sun Journal (Jan. 12) quoted LePage, “It really is the right thing to do if health issues come in,” after his doctor warned him that he risked developing diabetes if he didn’t lose weight. The governor dodged questions about who paid for […]
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E. Miller: Has the legislative skills
I write to enthusiastically endorse Dennise Whitley for state Representative in District 71. I served in the Maine House in the 122nd, 123rd and 124th legislatures. As a member of the Health and Human Services (and later, the Appropriations Committee), I worked frequently with Whitley in her role as a public health advocate. She excelled […]
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H. Ware: Taking an active interest
It is town meeting season in Western Maine. To me, town meetings are the purest and most accessible form of democracy. Everyone can be heard and participate in a town’s decisions for the next year. Reports are made, questions are asked and answered and often, at the Norway town meeting, hard workers are warmly complimented […]
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D. Whitley: Give constituents the opportunity
I write to urge Sen. Jim Hamper, Rep. Tom Winsor and Rep. Roger Jackson, all Republicans, to think about the people in Oxford County that they represent and to vote for the Medicaid expansion when they get the opportunity to do so again. They represent many of the thousands of people in Oxford County who […]