Gina Melaragno has been a passionate advocate for House District 62 in her first term as state representative. She has spoken for folks whose lives are unfamiliar to most other legislators — Mainers who work two and three jobs just to keep a roof over their head; middle-class workers who face high insurance premiums and inadequate state funding of their children’s schools.

She introduced the bill that was the model for the ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage, because she knows it’s a critical issue for Maine families.

Because she was denied health insurance herself when the expansion of MaineCare was vetoed, she has persistently and fearlessly advocated for revisiting that effort in Augusta. And she resisted lobbyists for premium increases for the big health insurance companies.

She is our homegrown Edward Little and USM graduate with a 100-percent voting record.

I am voting to re-elect Gina Melaragno.

Katherine Logue, Auburn