In response to Representative Hawke’s “opinion poll” I pose some of my own questions:

 

1.  Do you believe that Hawke should represent all the constituents in her district or just the narrow majority of Trump and LePage supporters who voted her into office?

 

2. Should Hawke stop supporting the cruel and callous LePage veto of Medicaid expansion?

 

3. Should Hawke quit trying to undermine workers; who democratically decide to form a union, then democratically elect officers to represent them collectively, and who democratically vote on a contract they negotiated with their employer; undermine them by burdening their union with “right to freeload” legislation that requires that their union to pay to represent freeloading workers who do not pay for that representation?

 

4. Do you agree or disagree that Hawke should override voter referendums such as the minimum wage question where she deprived the wait staff of smaller restaurants of the ability to gain a fair and equitable wage?

 

5. Should Hawke be allowed to waste taxpayer money on push polling techniques that are condemned by the American Association of Political Consultants and the American Association for Public Opinion Research?

 

Wouldn’t it be nice to have an elected representative who uses her office to unite us rather than divide us?