At last week’s Lewiston City Council meeting, local leaders put aside city infrastructure issues — such things as maintaining roads and providing water and sewer services. They ignored the needs of Lewiston residents who are struggling to find food and heat this winter.

Instead, they took on the “important” business of calling for a constitutional amendment asking corporations to stop being involved in politics.

That is a pressing issue for the Lewiston City Council? Really? Or is it part of the agenda of Nate Libby’s former employer? It stinks of the Maine People’s Alliance. Is it really a productive use of council time to promote one individual’s personal agenda?

But back to this foolish resolution.

Does the council even realize that the city of Lewiston is itself a corporation? And the mere passing of this resolution is an act in and of itself? Doesn’t make a lot of sense, does it? To vote as a corporation to take a political stand against corporations taking a political stand?

Councilors need to wake up and consider what they are voting on before they continue to embarrass the city by giving traction to one member’s personal agenda.

I expected better of my councilors, who were elected to end that sort of nonsense, not support it.

Mark Francis, Lewiston