We hope legislators can resist calls from some corners for another round of proposals to increase the minimum wage or tinker with the workers' compensation system. It would be nice to have a session in which those issues didn't have to be argued. The bond issue process should be reserved only for expenditures that truly qualify as capital improvements. There's no likelihood that Democrats and Republicans will abandon all vestiges of partisanship, but Maine citizens would be well-served if the two parties could seek common ground whenever possible in the course of their deliberations. But members of both parties should constantly bear in mind that, once elected, they are representing all citizens.
Democracy is ill-served when that is forgotten.
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