Secretary Bellows’ interview on WVOM on MLK day should be required listening for every Mainer. The 14 minutes of cackles, slippery sing-song spin, and condescending disrespect for Mainers who support Trump (“minions”) is available at https://www.wvomfm.com/episode/rewind-01-19-sos-shenna-bellows-1415/. As I listened to Bellow’s poisonous partisan abuse of power and position, I realized that she is the modern-day equivalent of Grima Wormtongue, J.R.R. The rank choice voting strategy within Democratic ranks seems to be to avoid criticism and ask for second-place support (that strategy apparently worked for wanna be Secretary Wormtongue). The only criticism Grima is likely to receive will come from Republicans and Trump minions, and she will either never hear it or dismiss it out of hand.