Last year, just months before an important vote on the repeal of Maine’s tax reform (which would have lowered Maine’s income tax), Lois Snowe-Mello was caught either accidentally misinforming voters, or even worse, willfully deceiving them.

The Sun Journal article, “Tax myths run wild,” read, “Lois Snowe-Mello of Poland, a Republican, recently circulated an e-mail containing false information about the state’s new tax law.”

Whether Snowe-Mello was misinformed or deceptive is only part of the problem. The real question is, do we want a senator who isn’t absolutely certain of the ramifications of a bill before sending information to voters, or who is willing to intentionally mislead the voters in order to effect her desired outcome at the polls?

Uninformed and willfully deceptive are not qualities most voters look for in representation, and at least one of those adjectives describes Lois Snowe-Mello.

Buffy Morrissette, Poland