Mike Michaud has earned voters’ support on several fronts and deserves to be re-elected to Congress. He is level-headed, a careful listener, votes his conscience, and understands from first-hand experience how federal policy decisions make real differences in the lives of working people.

He is also a very hard worker who comes home to Maine most weekends to spend long days traveling around his district — the largest Congressional district east of the Mississippi.

He has an independent and strong conscience about his votes. He asked hard questions about the finances of health reform, and has pushed for international trade and currency issues that will help Maine businesses and jobs.

In the current political atmosphere, Mike Michaud’s low-key decency, personal integrity and scrupulous avoidance of political mud-throwing stand for the best of Maine’s values. He has earned my trust and support.

William C. Hiss, Minot