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Regarding the election to the Bangor City Council of a candidate with a criminal record and a history of addiction: Council Chair Susan Hawes echoed a popular sentiment by saying “People need to stop with the foolishness. The things they were talking about were 20 plus years ago, Shame on them.”
Aside from that, we have a felon in the White House.
Most everyone did something in their youth that they later regretted. Shouldn’t the same principle of understanding and forgiveness be applied to things Graham Platner did and said decades ago?
Michael P. Gleason
Bangor
