Bobby Charles will restore fairness and common sense in Maine | Letter

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As a senior living on a fixed income in my home, which has housed three generations of our family, I have always taken pride in Maine’s quiet, hardworking way of life. But lately, a deep sense of heartbreak and frustration has replaced that pride. Regular Maine citizens are being actively pushed out of their own communities by out-of-touch policies in Augusta.

Over the last several years, the energy costs and other household expenses have become alarming. Soaring property taxes and skyrocketing heating oil prices are forcing seniors like me to make agonizing choices between buying groceries, paying for medicine or filling the oil tank. What breaks my heart is watching our state funds get continuously directed toward expanded welfare programs for non-citizens, while the lifelong, tax-paying residents who built this state are squeezed out of the homes they raised their families in.

Our current administration’s priorities are completely backward. We need a fundamental return to fairness and common sense, and that is exactly why I am voting for Bobby Charles.

Bobby Charles understands the domestic economic strains hitting rural Maine and fixed-income seniors. He isn’t interested in partisan grandstanding; he cares about practical relief for regular people. Bobby has committed to bringing fiscal sanity back to Augusta, lowering the tax burdens that threaten our property ownership and prioritizing the long-term citizens of Maine. For those of us who feel left behind, Bobby Charles is the common-sense leader we desperately need.

Pauline Leonard
Glenburn

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