Nothing authentic about Moody

Shawn Moody has flipped from his 2010 race on everything he said he was.

Asked during a September 2010 radio interview whether he would be a pro-choice or pro-life candidate, Moody said, “Some things I think are just larger than legislation. When you get into that real intimate, personal choices that some people have to make during their life, I think that’s up to them to make. As governor, I’m not going to be pushing my will or pushing my personal, social agenda on the people.” Now, he says he has always been ‘pro-life.’”

In 2010 Shawn Moody’s campaign page stated this: “Who is Shawn Moody? Perhaps I should start by explaining who I am not. I’m not a Republican. I’m not a Democrat. I’m not a liberal. I’m not a conservative. I never constructed that “box” we’re told to think out of. I registered as an Independent at the age of 18 because it didn’t make sense to me to “choose sides.”

But suddenly now if you ask Moody what his party status is he says, “he has always lived by Republican values.”

You can’t trust someone who flips like that.

Cheryl Golek,
Harpswell

Kavanaugh a threat to workers

Brett Kavanaugh is a threat to all workers and I hope that both Susan Collins and Angus King oppose his nomination. Since his time as a Bush White House insider, he has done his best to erode workers’ rights and protections while siding with large corporations and the wealthy. This is his established work record.

A few years ago at SeaWorld a professional trainer was killed at work by a whale— their fourth trainer death. OSHA investigated, found safety violations, and issued a citation for this preventable death. SeaWorld appealed and the court said the OSHA citation was valid. Kavanaugh disagreed, and in his dissent described this professional trainer’s work as “playing with dangerous animals” and questioned whether workers should be “protected from themselves.”

I am a welder at Bath Iron Works and have worked there for 30 years. Every day I am grateful for safety laws and regulations. They are what allow me and my co-workers to return home to our families at the end of the day. If the time should come when—like the SeaWorld trainer–I do not live through the work day, I don’t want my family to hear someone who is paid with my own tax dollars say I was just “playing with dangerous tools” and shouldn’t need ”protection from myself.” I am proud of the ships we build in Bath and hope we get a Supreme Court justice who is capable of respecting the efforts of ordinary people like me.

Robert Jacobs,
Dresden