State Rep. Cynthia Dill, D-Cape Elizabeth, may believe she’s answering her constituents’ concerns by sponsoring a resolution that aims to create a recall provision in Maine law that would let citizens initiate a process to get rid of an elected official.

Dill’s proposal calls for a legislative committee, on which Dill does not serve, to craft the bill.

That’s right. Dill feels so strongly about this recall bill that she didn’t even bother to write and sponsor the bill herself, but instead is trying to foist it on her colleagues by way of a House resolution. She says the measure is in response to many calls and conversations with people who have been angered by Republican Gov. Paul LePage and his various utterances. Dill has said her measure is not aimed at this governor specifically but is needed because Maine has no process to recall elected officials who are not doing their jobs.

Really? We thought that was called an election.

Jeers to Dill for not only failing to put her name on a bill she says Maine needs, but for wasting the time of her colleagues. News of Dill’s recall proposal broke on the heels of LePage admitting publicly he needed to be “zipping his lip” and being less offensive.

Instead of capitalizing on LePage’s rare gesture of humility, Dill opted to widen the partisan divide in Augusta by launching a much-publicized move that isn’t going anywhere in a Republican-controlled Legislature.

This kind of legislation is as discouraging and distracting to the lawmaking process as the governor’s various poorly chosen remarks.

Cheers to Dr. Jean Antonucci, a Farmington-area family physician, who will again offer local residents without insurance a chance to see a doctor and pay what they can afford.

It is the second year in a row Antonucci has made the offer to the community, and last year many people took her up on it.

The cost of a visit, if you pay cash, is normally about $200.

Antonucci notes that most uninsured are not unemployed but may be struggling or underemployed and are too ashamed to contact a doctor for help.

She said most doctors can help somebody struggling with finances and that the hardest thing many times is just getting people to come in and ask for help.

Antonucci said most patients who took her up on the offer paid between $60 and $80; others could only muster between $10 and $20.

One patient, a waitress, paid Antonucci with her tips, in $1 and $5 bills.

“I gave it back to her,” Antonucci said.

Cheers to that, too; that’s true caring and compassion.

On the topic of health care, cheers to the groundbreaking on the new Veterans Affairs clinic for Lewiston.

This much-needed and long-awaited facility is going to vastly improve the lives of veterans in the greater Lewiston-Auburn area who previously had to travel to Togus in Augusta for their care.

Care close to home, including laboratory tests, counseling and medical treatments, will make a world of difference to our veterans.

Cheers to all the officials, from our congressional delegation to local veteran advocates and city officials, who have made locating a facility in Lewiston a priority and — now — a soon-to-be reality.

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