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The headline on March 3 read, “Budget amendment defeated,” with subhead, “Senate’s 65-35 vote major setback for Republicans’ game plan.” (The effort to balance the budget is a game?)

A statement from the article is then featured which read, “United We Stand America/Maine criticizes Republicans for failing to win enactment of the balanced budget amendment. See A2.”

So I did. The entire quote read, “Ross Perot’s organization, United We Stand America/Maine, blasted Senate Democrats Thursday for blocking passage of the balanced budget amendment and criticized Republicans for failing to win enactment of it.”

My complaint — why was the Republican criticism featured on the front page of the Bangor Daily News, and not the first statement — that Democrats were blasted for blocking the amendment?

Please reserve the editorializing for the editorial page. Martha Porter Veazie