At a town hall meeting in Newport last Thursday, Governor Paul LePage accused Maine state employees of being “about as corrupt as you can be.” I agree with Republican State Legislators Roger Katz and Patrick Flood and others who have called on Gov. LePage to apologize. Public workers do important work for all Maine people. For Gov. LePage to call them "corrupt" is baseless and insulting to every public worker who has dedicated their lives to making Maine a great place to live, work, and raise a family.

It is way past time for elections to be held on Saturdays, not Tuesdays, for it allows poor voters a better opportunity to get to the polls. It is far more difficult for low-level workers to get off during the middle of the work week, and farmers and ranchers no longer need the few days it used to take to go the polls. Today, with the right wing doing all it can to disenfranchise voters with new voter ID laws, it is high time to change election day to Saturday.

All Americans should have the same health care program that Politicians have. The health insurance companies and Pill makers have been gouging us for years. This will make the US competitive in the world market. IE: Economic & Job recovery.

Abolishment of affrimative action for eqaul opportunity of all americans not just certain people. The past is the past lets not punish the future generations with the past. As a minority having to work in another state in a professional position cause of Affirmative Action this is wrong.

Contest the tickets issued to drivers legally turning right on red at Rt.70(W) and Springdale Rd. in Cherry Hill. Drivers are falsely cited as in violation of NJ#39:4-81,Failure to Observe Signal, and charged with running a red light. Installation of a "No Turn on Red" sign will eliminate this problem.

Most sustainability efforts concentrate on reducing the average carbon or water footprint of citizens. But we currently have a seven to one excess of humanity over what our planet can sustain over the long run. This fast rising tidal wave of humanity will, in 53 years, be a 14 to 1 excess. In this light, current sustainability efforts can be seen as "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic".

The proposal to amend the 85% mandatory prison term was added to the LWOP bill 1067 and is currently in commitee. We need your support to get this bill on the floor.

Privileges congress has voted for themselves, English as our National language, immigration and religion.

"At-Will Employment" laws in most states give employers the right to layoff and/or fire people without valid and/or anti-discriminatory cause, thus circumventing U.S. constitutional laws prohibiting discrimination. Therefore, those laws should be declared federally unconstitutional, instead prescribing that employers must provide demonstrably valid reasons for all layoffs and firings. Furthermore, justice demands that since employers have means of retaliating (either through litigation or via negative references) against abrupt voluntarily departing employees while fired or laid-off ones have little or no lawful recourse in "At-Will" states, federal law should mandate employers' minimum reasonable advance notification of contemplated layoffs/firings, thus enabling employees to at least seek alternative means of income if not redress of grievances. We need to not only pressure each state to voluntarily overturn despicable "At-Will Employment" laws and replace them with laws requiring employers to validate layoffs/firings, but also petition our federal government to mandate employer accountability and declare "At-Will Employment" laws unconstitutional. (Exemptions should likely be built into such new legislation based on company size or other mitigating circumstances.) General examples of the harm of leaving existing laws in place include not only the negative effects on individuals, but also the enabling of demonstrably invalid corporate claims of financial hardship at times of massive layoffs. Specific legislation could require that valid layoffs only be permissable if average or lowest worker wages rise above a certain percentage in relation to the average executive salaries and the top salary at any so-regulated business (e.g., that the average worker salary must be not worse than 20 times lower than that of the average executive, and/or the lowest worker wage not be equivalent to less than 50 times lower than that of the average executive and not less than 100 times lower than that of the highest paid executive--or some other reasonable formula having a similar effect). Had such federal legislation been in place, our economy would likely be in much better shape because the pressure on businesses to act equitably would either cause workers to have higher earnings or help prevent the massive layoffs that have resulted in the severe loss of consumer spending which has characterized our troubled economy.

WHEREAS significant and serious health, privacy, cost and other concerns have been identified regarding the installation of wireless Advanced Meter Infrastructure at the residence and business of La Plata Electric Association customers and members, and whereas LPEA has plans to proceed to install wireless AMIs although it recognizes there is active discussion and ongoing science debate into the possible health and environmental effects related to RF, and it is aware that on May 31, 2011, the World Health Organization classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as a Class 2B, a possible human carcinogen, and called for further investigation. LPEA also recognizes that on January 19, 2012, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, publicly announced, “An immediate moratorium on smart meter installation until these serious public health issues are resolved. Continuing with their installation would be extremely irresponsible”. The below signed also does not give consent for Advanced Meter Infrastructure device(s) to be installed at their private residence or owned business, and does not give LPEA permission to obtain personal information beyond kilowatt(s) used read by any utility meters and anything more will be an “invasion of privacy”. The LPEA Board of Directors has authority to stop all contracts with Tantalus and abandon in total the installation of wireless metering devices/AMI’s, or modify for an opt-in option therefore making wireless metering devices an Opt In program. Those customers who choose not to participate shall automatically be opting out and not be charged a fee, since this is an optional program. THEREFORE, the customers and members signed below of La Plata Electric Association request LPEA Board of Directors give a directive for LPEA to abandon in total the installation of AMI’s, or any wireless communications device(s). If LPEA Board of Directors continues the with wireless meters/AMI’s installation plans, then LPEA Board of Directors are to make AMI’s to be installed upon the customers and members request, customers and members must opt into the program. Customers and members, who do not opt in, automatically are opting out and no extra fee(s) will be charged.

Thousands of homeowners have been illegally forced from their homes. Judicial foreclosure gives the homeowner time to make things right.

An outrageous attack resulting in death was made on a private citizen of these United States. Such brutality must be made public and the perperators must be publicly tried and brought to justice. If one of us is unsafe in this country, none of us is safe. It's hard to believe that such behavior comes from people paid to serve an protect.