Shenna Bellows on Welfare & Poverty

No one in Washington stands up for people who are hurting

"In the past two decades, Washington has manufactured an economic crisis, an environmental crisis, and a constitutional crisis," Bellows says to the camera. "No one in Washington is standing up for the people who are hurting... Maine needs a senator with the courage to lead."

The video, which is just over two minutes long, features Mainers talking up the candidate's "middle-class values," work ethic, and effective leadership. Bellows appears to be going with "the carpenter's daughter" as her one-line characterization.

Priority to pensions and poverty programs, not government

• When Head Start and Meals on Wheels programs are cut back while members of Congress pay themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary and benefits, something is deeply wrong in Washington.
• When workers' pensions are underfunded or frozen but government pensions for members of Congress are not, something is deeply wrong in Washington.
• Our democracy is too important for good people to stay on the sidelines.
• Our democracy demands a full and fair debate in this race about our priorities.
• The future of our democracy requires that good people with good ideas participate and that at all levels we debate in a civil and respectful way the solutions that will move our country forward.