Posted on 07/25/2026 5:08:36 PM PDT by 4Liberty
Just hours before Maine Democrats are scheduled to meet in Bangor to select a replacement nominee for the U.S. Senate, a Republican state lawmaker is asking Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to determine whether former Senate President Troy Jackson is legally eligible to receive the nomination at all...
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Laws don’t apply to Democrats. Everybody knows that.
Queue a federal judge to rule the democrat eligible in 3, 2, 1,.....
Secretary of State Bellows is crookeder than a dog’s hind leg. We know what her answer is.
He points specifically to Title 21-A, Section 331, which provides that “a person may not file, whether by primary election or nomination petition, as a candidate for more than one federal, state or county office at any election.”
Jackson isn't running for more than one office.
He lost the primary, which means he's out of the election process. Duh!
Unlike several states, Maine does not have an explicit “sore loser” statute that expressly bars a candidate defeated in a primary from later appearing on the general election ballot for another office. Instead, White argues that existing provisions of Title 21-A, when read together, effectively create that prohibition.
Maine law also provides political parties with a process to replace nominees who withdraw after winning a primary, but the statutes do not specifically address whether someone who lost a different statewide primary may be selected as the replacement nominee. That ambiguity has become the focus of White’s request.
White is grand-standing. Title 21-A addresses people running for election. Jackson was defeated and, by definition, is no longer running for office.
This interpretion hinges on whether a primary is part of a larger process of an “election”. A primary selects a nommiee for election.
I am not a lawyer, but I have reviewed the state law and have not seen it is clear one way or the other.
Various parts of the law seem to contrdict each other.
“White is grand-standing. Title 21-A addresses people running for election. Jackson was defeated and, by definition, is no longer running for office.”
I agree. The problem with having ream after ream of laws is they create confusion rather than clarity. And the complainant had to stitch several laws together to achieve his aim.
I was given the job of reviewing all the rules and regulations that governed General Dynamics. I compiled a chart and there were several situations where an employee could be disciplined or fired for doing X. Then in another section they could be disciplined or fired for NOT doing the same X. I presented this to my boss, who was evil to the core. He just grinned and said, “Yep.”
Seems pretty clear to me....he doesn’t...
2d question. Is the Maine AG republican or dem
Actually, I believe this law is unconstitutional for a federal Senate race. It is adding additional qualifications not found in the constitution.
I wanted that mentally ill dude who is qualified because HE is a songwriter and an author to win the nomination!! Troy Jackson is the most ‘sane’.
Maine has a sore loser law, but you can be sure it only applies to republicans. Democrats can do whatever they want to do.
So Republicans are (rightly) scared of this guy. In reality this phony-macho beta male is a threat only to women.
But that doesn’t mean women won’t vote around 60% for him in November (Susan Collins narrowly won the female vote in 2020).
As much of a complete piece of shit as Troy Jackson is, he will not only pretty much sweep the (D) vote in November but also enough (I) votes (of which Maine has a ton). Collins won 13% of Democrats in 2020 and won by 3 points with Indies — who are a larger group than Democrats or Republicans. Those numbers for Collins are not likely to hold up in 2026.
For many years Troy Jackson has represented a state legislative district that is generally Republican and somewhat conservative. It’s not some urban ghetto “AWFUL” district in Portland; quite the opposite.
He’s won consistently there and he can fool the rest of the state too. Very easily. Republicans better get serious with the oppo research, and do it yesterday. It’s not sufficient to whimper about his eligibility like beaten pups.
BTW, I’ll eat a hat if Maine’s hyper-partisan Democrat Secretary of State rules Jackson ineligible. Nice try by James White, but get real.
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