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Posted on 07/14/2026 5:57:46 PM PDT by Libloather
Here Maine goes again.
The state’s new far-left contender for the Democratic Party’s US Senate nomination is a faux populist with a wicked reactionary streak.
Until five minutes ago, his immigrant-hating, anti-abortion platform was so extreme it would spook even the staunchest Republican.
He’s a local pol so desperate to make it in the big leagues that he’s cosplaying as a progressive working man unafraid to get his hands dirty.
He is Troy Jackson, fifth-generation Maine logger and wannabe US senator, and he’s got the Bernie Sanders seal of approval to replace accused rapist Graham Platner on the Democrats’ midterm election ballot.
Influential Dems are betting the chance for a Senate majority on a 58-year-old former radical right-winger who’s transformed himself into a socialist darling.
“He was a logger by trade so he’s got that Maine log man in him,” enthused former political operative Kurt Bardella.
But while some see a sexy macho man, I smell an abject phony.
On the surface, Jackson seems to check all the necessary boxes to defeat GOP Sen. Susan Collins — as Platner appeared to do, before his campaign crashed and burned.
Union member? Check.
Virile manual laborer? Ditto.
Yet from where I sit, he’s a blow-with-the-wind, say-anything-believe-nothing fake who’s out for nothing but personal gain.
And those are his good points.
Jackson’s legislative history is marked by obsessions with those he viewed as job-stealing immigrants, as well as a scary preoccupation with what women do with their bodies.
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How many more lake houses did he promise to Bernie?
Chain saw jo?
He’s a lumberjack and he’s OK
He sleeps all night and works all day...
He’s a lumberjack and he’s OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day
He’s got the maine log man in him? Word choices.
I hope the DSA wing of the Demoncrap Party of Maine strikes back by voting for Graham Planter as a write-in.
What will the tree- huggers think?
Maybe he’s still a right winger dressed as a lesbian.
“These are my principles! And if you don’t like them, I have others.”
SNL skit
Ray says he's a logger when he wants to sound macho....
I’ve seen enough. Collins will win ME Senate.
No. I grew up in the midst of the wood products industry in Oregon. My father and all his brothers were actual loggers before WW2 took them away. My father worked in a lumber mill until an accident forced him to retire in 1969.
My brother worked in a plywood mill for several years until he married the wrong woman. I knew a very highly paid software engineer who paid his way thru college by working summers as a logging choker, one of the the most dangerous jobs in the world.
A logger is someone who works around cutting trees in the forest. Period.
The dems are still looking for that “manly man” that can rescue the men’s vote for them. That was why they went out on a limb for Platner. Their previous efforts, duck-hunter Kerry, shotgun fumbling stooge Walz, Talarico eating bbq with a napkin, all go egg shaped under the light of day. This flunkie is bound to wilt just like the rest, because as a rat he can’t support issues men care about.
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