We have tried every other path and decided something more dramatic and vocal and visible was needed to raise public awareness of what the bill is really about.

We are trying to raise awareness. We have been networking with grass-roots organizations across the state. This is one part of a huge problem facing the state of Maine.

We really wanted to come together and get all the folks from these communities talking to each other.

This tends to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.

I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.