Last May in the U.S. Capitol, news reporters wanted to talk to Congressman Bruce Poliquin about his vote on the ACA. He ducked into a restroom to avoid being asked questions — his modus operandi.
After the murder of 17 high school students in Florida and the wounding of many more, Poliquin tweeted his “thoughts and prayers” for the victims. How thoughtful.
Maine Author Stephen King called Poliquin an “NRA Sweetheart.” Instead of speaking for himself, his spokesperson said Poliquin “won’t respond directly to a Hollywood person.” King is one of his constituents.
With 435 members of the House of Representatives, Poliquin receives the eighth-highest funding from the NRA — close to a quarter of a million dollars for his campaigns. The NRA pays and he votes their way, while babies, high school students and others are gunned down on a regular basis.
Throughout my law enforcement career and as former mayor of Lewiston, I have worked tirelessly for good, common-sense gun legislation. I have worked with Press Secretary Jim Brady, Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and others from the Tucson shooting, parents of children of Sandy Hook Elementary School, a college student from Virginia Tech University shot four times, the wife of LPD Officer David Payne and the parents of Trooper Giles Landry, as well as the parents of a young lady shot and killed in Portland.
When will elected representatives come to their senses and enact good, common-sense gun legislation? Poliquin won’t, not with his NRA blood money.
Poliquin is not my representative.
Larry Gilbert Sr., Lewiston
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