A friend of mine, in Minneapolis, on hearing Sen. Susan Collins voice her support for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, wrote me to say that the best thing the people of Maine can do to support the people of Minneapolis is to replace Susan Collins in November.

Whether people support Graham Platner or Janet Mills or someone else, let’s agree that anyone would be better than a senator who enables the federally sanctioned domestic terrorism that is executing citizens in the street and abducting our law-abiding neighbors from their homes and workplaces. 

Susan Collins is an accessory to these crimes, particularly in her refusal to use her power as the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee in the interest of civility, law and order and justice. Sins of omission are sins nonetheless.

To my friend in Minneapolis, to that city of heroes, and to this heartbroken nation, Maine has got this.

John Shibley
Eliot