who blogs at Dirigo Blue and Kennebec Blues
and has been misrepresented by Senator Olympia Snowe for many years.
In tea party Maine a debate on LD 882, "An Act To Limit Health Care Mandates" Representative Lance Harvell (R-Farmington) had what can only be described as a fit about pap smears that demonstrated his ignorance about preventative health care and the cost benefits of good screening tests for everyone covered by health care.
His bogus claim that pap smears are somehow connected to older people having bad health care as some sort of result of carelessness can only be construed as further evidence of amazing ignorance or a willful smear rap.