Dear Editor:

Although not a registered anything, other than a voter, I like to help out during election season, and I offered to chauffeur Laura Fortman around while she met and spoke with folks in Lincoln County in her bid to be our State Senator for District 13.

Two things about her resonated strongly with me. One, she has been endorsed by the Sierra Club. I joined the Sierra Club back in 1993 when I was living in Antwerp, Belgium, a place that has the largest assembly of petro-chemical tanks in the world, second only to Houston, Texas. And after that hurricane down there, maybe Antwerp’s #1 now. I’m still a member and anxious to help protect Maine’s most precious asset, our environment.

Secondly, she has led a sexual assault crisis center. Currently I am a hotline volunteer for New Hope for Women. It’s not an easy task. But I remind myself that if my daughter ever needed to make such a call, there has to be someone on the other end of that line.

Her myriad other accomplishments are way too many to list in this brief letter. If you are not already aware of them, I urge you to check them out on her website: https://fortman.mainecandidate.com/ And if also impressed, then I urge you to join me in voting for Laura on Nov. 6.

Susan van Alsenoy

Wiscasset