This is a response to Rep. Jared Golden’s guest column, “Mayor misleading Lewiston residents” (Sun July 31). Golden, along with Reps. Peggy Rotundo and Heidi Brooks, felt that continued monetary support for asylum seekers trumped the fiscal burden placed on Lewiston property taxpayers and voted “yes” on LD 369. LD 369, as originally written, would […]
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R. Macdonald: Name-calling is hurtful
This is a response to Rep. Michel Lajoie’s letter (July 26). Prior to becoming mayor, I served 23 years on the Lewiston Police Department and attended many training sessions in southern Maine. Upon announcing I was from Lewiston, immediately the phrases “dumb frogs” and “dumb Frenchmen” spewed from the mouths of many of those present. […]
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Mayor misleading Lewiston residents
A top elected official is at the forefront of a politically motivated campaign of misinformation. Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald is misrepresenting state lawmakers from Lewiston, putting his loyalties to Gov. Paul LePage above his duty to serve the people of Lewiston. The mayor blames Democrats for the passage of LD 369, mischaracterizing both what the […]
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R. Macdonald: Employees unfairly criticized
As mayor of the city of Lewiston, I was appalled — but not surprised — by the accusations leveled at the municipal staff by Ben Chin of the Maine People’s Alliance in his guest column “Code enforcement necessary to drive out slumlords” (April 19). Code office staff checked with Chin to ascertain the location of […]
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R. Macdonald: Will move Lewiston forward
The biggest impediment to real welfare reform in Maine is the Maine Democratic Party. The Democrats have pledged their allegiance to Maine Equal Justice Partners, The Maine People’s Alliance and the ACLU. These nonprofits have no concern for overburdened taxpayers. Sen. Susan Collins answered Lewiston’s plea and continues working to find a solution to the […]
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R. Macdonald: A very real message sent
This is in response to Larry Gilbert’s letter “It was all rhetoric” (July 21). Although, on paper, Lewiston’s mayors have very limited power, in reality, they create an environment at City Hall that mirrors their political beliefs. It seems to me that Gilbert believes that city government exists to pander to the underclass, refugees and […]
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Lewiston 2013 welfare purge resulted in one conviction, changes
LEWISTON — A city effort to clean up the General Assistance rolls in 2013 may not have resulted in many convictions, according to Mayor Robert Macdonald, but it did bring the issue of Maine welfare fraud more into focus. “Before we did this, we were told the issue of fraud in General Assistance was anecdotal, […]
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Macdonald meets with Lewiston asylum seekers
LEWISTON — Mayor Robert Macdonald met with a group of asylum-seeking immigrants for two hours Wednesday afternoon discussing ways to preserve city General Assistance payments. Macdonald said he expects the City Council will vote on whether to change city policy and begin denying payments to undocumented immigrants at its next meeting. The council’s next scheduled […]
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R. Macdonald: No need for new Section 8 housing
This is a response to Steve Goulet’s letter (June 4). I am not, nor have I ever been, in favor of the St. Laurent project which would create 29 new units of Section 8 housing. The first time the project came before the City Council for approval, I cast one of the three negative votes. […]
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R. Macdonald: Need more details
This is in response to “Who’s really ripping ME off?” (March 2). Where’s the beef? Charts make good page fillers but only tell a small portion of the corporate fraud story. Were the companies listed found guilty of a criminal or a civil violation? Or a combination of both? After the criminal cases were adjudicated, […]