Mainers should know that both the content and financing of Susan Collins’ TV ads come from national Republican action groups dedicated to re-enlisting a Republican edge in Congress. While she has achieved some benefits for Maine, she [has] almost always favored the business sector over the public. She has done nothing to curb health care costs, nothing to stop the Iraq war, nothing to create jobs or increase wages. In fact, she’s done very little for the middle class at all.

However centrist, Collins is but another cog in the Republican congressional machine that has brought a steady decline of living to most Americans, enormous cost-of-living increases, stagnant pay scales and a wasteful and wrongful war. Fine to work for diabetes research but what about bigger issues, like the needs of the average voter?

Mainers need to look in their wallets and think long and hard before they choose again the principles that have now brought us to the brink of 1933.

Dennis Lopez

Rockport