Letter: Rowe is ‘man of integrity’ (Printed May 28, 2010)
I support Democrat Steve Rowe for governor because he sets a high priority on educating our children. In his speech at the Democratic convention last week, Steve referred to education as “the key that unlocks opportunity” and reminded us we must focus on education in Maine.
As a mother of two busy children, active member of the PTO and regular school volunteer, I agree that a quality education for our children is essential to raising productive, responsible and caring adults who have a lifelong passion for learning, innovation and problem solving.
Steve Rowe wants to strengthen our education system with an emphasis on early childhood education to produce graduates prepared to compete with anyone, anywhere. Equally important is having quality jobs for Mainers upon graduation. Steve has a plan for creating good-paying, sustainable jobs called “Innovate Maine.” A core principle of the plan is the belief that people are our greatest asset and their potential is realized only if they are healthy, well-educated, valued and challenged. Steve Rowe is well-qualified to meet these objectives.
He combines demonstrated leadership in the public and private sectors with a discipline honed by his West Point education and service as an Army officer. Steve has served as a state legislator, speaker of the Maine House and Maine attorney general, and worked as an executive at several of Maine’s largest employers. He is prepared to do this job.
Steve Rowe is a man of integrity, dedication and vision. I know Steve will work tirelessly and cooperatively on these and many other issues and that is why I will vote for him in the June 8 primary and encourage others to do so as well.
Larissa Pratt
Scarborough
Steve Rowe wants to:
Keep government living beyond it’s means; manipulate bank loan industry (like fannie-mea-freddie-mac);create more government jobs, continuing dependency on federal bonds-loans, have more government control and larger volume of hand-out funds to ‘’incubate’’ business, give out more worthless guarantees of loans to small business, from an already broke state; wants to give tax incentives for businesses hiring a worker, but a fraction of what the worker already costs, and only a limited amount, not continual in a market environment where demand doesn’t exist to justify the employment; tax on mileage, despite the fact people have to travel to find sparse jobs due to state failure and neglect, further impacting it’s already compromised residents; borrow funds, grants, bonds, bonds, loan funds, borrowed funds, and increase benefit charges (tax increases); reduce school funding if towns pick up cost and start-up pre-school (shell game to dodge unlimited entitlement promises to unions)
I don't believe Steve Rowe is a healthy choice for Maine.
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