Though I now live in Florida, I’ll always be a Mainer at heart. We still pay taxes in both Auburn and Newry. Kudos to Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows for removing the insurrectionist from Maine’s ballot, at least temporarily. If not abiding by the results isn’t election interference, what is? P.S. Slavery caused the […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
Marc Jalbert: Re-electing Trump would make U.S. ‘the laughing stock of the world’
I want to make as fair a comparison as I possibly can. The Congress wasted very little time with addressing the issue of George Santos, without a conviction and overall disgust for what he stood for. A liar and under three indictments. On the other hand, some 40-plus percent of the Republican Party seem to […]
Ken Johnson: Barring Trump from ballot is constitutional issue, not political
I am writing in support of the decision and action by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows regarding Donald Trump’s right to be on the ballot in Maine. Her job and responsibility as secretary of state regarding the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, Section 3, is to hear arguments to determine if Trump has taken action that […]
Darrell Dunn: Bellows erred in blocking Trump from Maine primary
By arbitrarily excluding candidates from the primary process, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has disenfranchised voters and effectively controls the outcome of Maine’s upcoming presidential election. This decision is dangerously reminiscent of ploys used in the USSR, Venezuela and North Korea, where dissident candidates were jailed or murdered before elections. It’s a ruling routinely employed […]
Carole Richards: ‘My wish for the new year’
My wish for the new year is a return to common decency and morality, to see kindness and caring everywhere. I am hopeful Generation Z will march to the polls this November in droves to say we will not accept inaction in Congress while children are being massacred in our schools. I wish to see […]
Patrick Eisenhart: ‘I don’t trust Golden any longer’
Voting with rich Republicans appears to be an emerging pattern with Congressman Jared Golden. He was the only Democrat to vote with the Republicans against the Build Back Better bill designed to provide badly-needed services for Mainers and to address climate change. He voted consistently with Republicans against the ban of the AR-15 until he […]
Jacqueline Smith: Excluding Trump from ballot ‘a slap in the face’
How sad and pathetic it is when three individuals and a bias secretary of state can make a decision that affects the rights of all the citizens of this wonderful state (excluding Donald Trump from the primaries). What a slap in the face. Obviously, they don’t believe that we are capable of thinking for ourselves […]
Penny Haslett: Trump is not for the people
I’m so upset that so many people were angry with Secretary of State Shenna Bellows. I feel she was very direct and stated just the facts. People are so quick to judge without looking up the information. I wish people would take the blinders off and see Donald Trump for what he really is. He […]
Norm Gellatly: Is Trump really ‘one of us’?
Donald Trump has been verbally bashed by many, and justifiably so. I too, have joined in on the bandwagon several times. Nevertheless, he does show a few positive traits. He speaks clearly, assertively, with frequent repetition to drive home his points with no uncertainty. He carries himself with self-assurance, nattily dressed. He deals out an […]
Carol Frechette Thomas: Relocate Lewiston’s Veterans Memorial Park to avoid flooding
Here’s a request to move Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston to an area less likely to experience flooding. Perhaps the park across the street could be expanded to accommodate the various monuments, benches and souvenirs of service. If the community is going to fundraise $100,000 to restore what was damaged, it makes sense to me […]