Libby Mitchell thinks prioritizing Maine’s transportation needs is “unfair,” because we “have to do all of them.” We can’t afford maintenance on the poor infrastructure we have without borrowing, much less embark upon another bureaucracy-burdened, directionless transportation plan without a viable goal.

She wants something “new and better,” for education, but believes it can’t be done without newly printed (not collected), red-ink-soaked federal money — another career politician treating federal funds without respect for taxpayers as the funding source.

Maine has a long history of establishing new programs, based on the bait of “free” federal money, that create dependency and can’t be sustained when federal money disappears.

Political ads, suggesting the collapse of education if we consider working without federal money, and environmental ruin if we consider traditional energy development, are based on evidence barely demonstrating correlation, much less causation.

Mitchell is the wrong choice for Maine.

Mona Frechette, Greene