I have had the pleasure of getting to know Debi Davis, who is a candidate for State House representative in District 11, which encompasses the larger portion of Biddeford. As a single mother who raised her two children alone, and now with a full-time, professional career as a producer and radio talkshow host, she has stepped out of her busy life in order to represent her neighbors in District 11. She loves her two school-aged grandsons and enjoys time with them as often as possible. She is educated, intelligent, informed and very knowledgeable, with a long work history and lots of life experiences.
We need people like Debi as a candidate for the Statehouse. She agrees that fiscal restraint and accountability for all levels of government is paramount and will not take money from the taxpayer through the Clean Election fund. This fund is paid for by the citizens of Maine, of which the majority of candidates have done in the past and are doing in 2014, even though many are millionaires and could well afford to pay for their own candidacy. Debi is not a millionaire, and the money for Debi’s candidacy will come out of her own pocket, not the citizens of Maine.
I am proud to know her because she is a strong and determined person who cares about her fellow taxpayers, who are the financially plundered, invisible and forgotten of Maine and of this nation. She has refused the Clean Election campaign funds of $5,000 from the taxpayers of Maine, instead she will go the traditional way and take responsibility for her own campaign and not look to burden the taxpayers of Maine for her candidacy.
Here is a candidate who refuses to take the free money offered to her from the state for her campaign that comes from hard-working Mainers. Debi promises that her vote will count and she will represent and be a voice for the taxpayer and their pocket books. She will listen to her constituents and what they have to say.
I urge voters in District 11 to cast their vote for Debi Davis for state representative either by absentee ballot or by going to the polls on Election Day and voting on Nov. 4.
Donna Flanaga, Biddeford
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