KENNEBEC JOURNAL • February 13, 2022
Sandi Howard, the principal officer of a political action committee funded by fossil fuel interests to oppose the Clean Energy Corridor, attacks the motives of the only side in the debate that relied on the voluminous and reasoned conclusions of impartial referees who carefully reviewed the project. Howard substitutes insults and name-calling for reasoned debate on the facts. A practice shared by her many allies in the aptly named “conflict industry.” Most damning is Howard’s effort to criminalize the exercise of First Amendment free speech rights by those with whom she disagrees. ~ Lloyd C. Irland, Wayne, and Walter Anderson, North Yarmouth