Voters in Auburn have a clear choice between two very different Maine Senate candidates.

Lois Snowe-Mello, Republican, is challenging longtime incumbent, Democrat Neria Douglass. Snowe-Mello, through her service in the Maine House of Representatives, is passionately aware of the failings of Douglass’s party’s 30-year dominance. This Democratic Party rule has now won Maine the distinction of having the second-highest tax burden in the U.S., the second highest health insurance costs and being the 48th-least friendly to business and jobs.

Fact is, the Democrat’s 30-year record of hostility to business and tax-and-spend policies have got to be stopped.

What really seals the deal for me is Lois Snowe-Mello earning a 100 percent rating from the National Federation of Independent Business, while Sen. Douglass earned a 30 percent.

As a working Mainer, the choice is clear: Snowe-Mello.

Ed Mitchell, New Gloucester