Vote NO! On Question 1 on November 7!

Preserve the Unique Reality of our rural peninsula and its midcentury school, a reminder of an era when the distribution of wealth took the form of a bell curve!

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As we approach November 5 there are many letters in the Boothbay Register, for or against two referendum votes that represent a dual expansion of power wielded by the State.

One is for the takeover by the state of privately owned utility companies. This is a reoccurring referendum. Proponents seem determined that if they repeat it often enough, the odds are that they will eventually win the vote. The only good that can come out of such a win, in my opinion, is that the private utilities will then challenge the state’s authority to take private companies by eminent domain and to charter a corporation by special act of legislation for which object can clearly be attained another way- in the private sector.

Maine Constitution

Article IV. Part Third. Legislative Power.

Section 14.  Corporations, formed under general laws.  Corporations shall be formed under general laws, and shall not be created by special Acts of the Legislature, except for municipal purposes, and in cases w…