To the editor:
Please vote for Ceci Maher — a sentient human being with actual experience and demonstrated intelligence. Her opponent is another Republican place-holder: no passion, no point of view, no specific ideas, just abstractions and generalities that blow in the wind.
Maher’s record is exemplary. She stands firmly for reproductive health rights in Connecticut and nationwide. She appreciates kitchen-table economics and has repeatedly supported tax cuts for all residents, especially the elderly. Her extensive nonprofit background gives her unique insight into the importance of common-sense gun laws and an accessible mental-health support system. She understands both fiscal foresight and compassion for people who are not exactly like her.
Her opponent, Kami Evans, is a would-be influencer desperately searching for something to influence. Her vibe is off: Everything she says is a tedious platitude about “community” or “togetherness,” yet she is the spawn of a Republican Party intent on destroying both. She won’t reveal what she thinks about Donald Trump (I’ve asked repeatedly), though she proudly embraces his MAGA supporters and donors on her busy Instagram account. Take a stand and stand behind it? Not Evans.
Her blatant lie about state reading guidelines in Westport and Maher’s fight against them is particularly disturbing: But that’s what Republicans do — try to lie everything into the record. She learned from the big fella.
Those of us who watched the Wilton and Westport debates saw Evans frantically flipping through her three-ring binder for answers to the moderators’ questions. Never has a candidate been less prepared, less conversant in the issues, less specific about how she would change anything in Hartford.
Ceci Maher embraces residents at every stage of their lives and uses her office to better their lives. There is no other sane choice.
Tom Prince
Westport
Blah, blah, blah….abortion (euphemistically referred to as “reproductive rights”) and gun control (but not of the illegal guns used by criminals). That is all the Democrat party seens to have. Tom Prince’s nasty, snide comments about Kami Evans, who is a sincere and commonsensical individual were uncalled for. It is not not surprising that he has such a positive assessment of Maher because she seemed to be a very nasty person during the Westport Library debate and that is what Democrats seen to like. However, personalities aside, maybe we could concentrate on the issues of criminal activity, illegal alien promotion leading to our Super Sanctuary state status, and zoning laws wrecking our communities. The people we send to Hartford will determine if the above issues get better or worse. Look up the legislation for the issues and see which reps and senators voted for them and decide if you want to send them back again.
If you don’t think that reproductive rights are important, good for you. But if most women do, you are out of touch.
Your gun comment is simply ignorant. Par for the course.
I do believe in “reproductive rights” actually, throughout the first trimester of pregnancy. I do not believe in abortion in the third trimester up to the delivery date which is the case in some states and should not be. That is called murder. The only difference between an aborted fetus and a baby is whether the mother wants it. That baby is not the mother’s body; it is a human being with a unique DNA code. The left seems to love death from abortion of full term babies to assisted suicide if you’re feeling blue. How anyone embraces this continues to be a mystery to me.
As for “gun control”, the control is always of legal gun owners. The Democrat legislation is focused on that and not the gun crimes committed by the mollycoddled criminals that other legislation has assisted in their quest to part you from your property or worse.
Late-term abortions are exceedingly rare and are only legally given to protect the health of the woman. If you have followed the fights over reproductive rights since the conservative court overturned Roe, you would be aware that the Republicans are going after far more than late-term abortion.
I can’t say that I know anyone who wants access to assisted suicide for people “feeling blue.” I suppose that you would prefer to simply lock them away until the end. We treat dogs better than we treat fatally people.
The fascinating thing about the way you project motivations upon others is they say more about yourself than they do about others.
Kami Evans tells Good Morning Wilton this week that she really “likes” Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—who loves roadkill and decapitates whales—but “a vote for him is a vote for Kamala, and therein lies the problem.” In the end, she claims not to know who she’s voting for: “I’m still weighing everything out.”