I am supporting Rep. Pete Johnson for re-election to the Legislature. I first met Pete at a Greenville town meeting. Pete had some concerns about the cost of running the school and asked many important questions. After the meeting I spoke to Pete and told him we had an opening on the school board and I suggested he run for it. Pete did and was elected.

As a board member, Pete displayed a great ability to gain knowledge and then to use that knowledge to rethink his position on an issue. If he found that the new knowledge he gained did not support his position, Pete was willing to change. This is a rare and wonderful characteristic.

Rep. Johnson is the vice president of the Maine Small Schools Coalition and has shown he is willing to work hard to preserve local control of education. He knows our schools are important to community development, but he also knows that we must find better ways of funding education.

Richard A. Gould

Greenville