“The way I’ve been trained to shoot the chest or the head, I was going to go for the head shot, but then I decided, ‘No, I don’t want to take this guy’s life’, so I shot him in the shoulder” (story, March 9). How incredibly refreshing to read Trevor Whitney’s thought processes while under […]
Richard Fochtmann
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Not all made of the same cloth
I would like to point out a bit of pejorative equating in what was otherwise an excellent Sun Journal editorial (Feb. 5). Just as mainstream conservatives struggle with the ignorance and angry violence of the extreme-right KKK and skinhead elements (to the chagrin of even tea party members), leftists have problems with anarchists who use […]
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Maine Senate 22: Richard Fochtmann
Age (on Election Day): 73 Party affiliation: Democrat Occupation: Retired Community organizations: DFD Russell Medical Centers; Leeds Municipal Democratic Committee; Leeds Historical Society Hobbies, activities etc.: I garden, and have designed and built (and still building) my own solar efficient home. Family status: Married Years in Legislature: 0 Clean Election candidate? No Committee assignments wanted: […]
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Business climate dismal
There was an article in the Sun Journal recently noting that Maine is ranked near the bottom of the country in job creation. Then there was a story about a Brunswick health center having to close its doors, costing 170 good jobs, because of the governor’s cuts in MaineCare — at a time when there […]
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R. Fochtmann: Health care is never free
How is it possible that so many ignorant people have gravitated to the Republican Party? On April 11, the Maine Senate failed to override the governor’s veto of a bipartisan bill to expand Medicaid coverage for 70,000 low-income Mainers. Only Republicans lined up to give ill-informed reasons why that’s a good idea. Gov. LePage said […]