This is in response to the Sun Journal profile of Rep. Bruce Poliquin (Sept. 23). In the article, Poliquin is quoted as having “ignored the noise” in the controversy over last year’s Republican bill designed to eliminate the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Yet 60 percent of Mainers had voted to expand Medicaid under Obamacare in 2017. Sen. Susan Collins, Poliquin’s fellow Republican, chose to listen to her constituents and not support the Republican bill, which would have stripped health care insurance from thousands of Mainers.

I have a few questions: What part of Mainers’ vital concerns is mere “noise,” to be tuned out? How can Congressman Poliquin claim to be a good listener, as he does in the article? Who is he listening to? Why, as stated in the article, is Poliquin reluctant to grant interviews and clarify his political priorities among the people he has chosen to represent?

Laurie O’Higgins, Lewiston