Major Scandal Hits New Maine Dem Senate Nominee,

Since disgraced Democrat Graham Platner exited under immense stress from social gathering leaders who had been terrified he was going to lose, the Maine Senate race has principally dropped out of the national news cycle, with one of the few “interesting” issues being the method the state social gathering used to decide its substitute nominee, Platner-backed Troy Jackson, a couple of weeks later. 

The other attention-grabbing – and far more cringey – factor that’s been revealed is that Jackson, a former state senate president who has been endorsed by the Maine DSA, is “romantically partnered up with his second cousin and the two have produced offspring,” as RedState beforehand reported. 

My colleague Teri Christoph noticed at the time that, “shacking up and procreating with your cousin is not unlawful in Maine, but, let’s be sincere, it is a little bizarre in this day and age. But, hey, he discovered a distinctive manner to out-Platner Platner.”

As it seems, that was more true than anybody realized, for causes we are going to soon clarify.

SEE ALSO: Watch: Troy Jackson Squirms When Asked for Date Night Advice After Kissin’ Cousins Bombshell

On Wednesday night time, news broke about a violent altercation that Jackson reportedly had in his youthful years with another man that landed Jackson in bother with the law. What was particularly troubling, however, was that police information at the time point out that Jackson’s romantic companion – whom he’s still with – alleged he “pushed her around” during the incident:

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Troy Jackson’s longtime companion told an officer he “pushed her around” after Jackson broke down a door and punched a man at a Fort Kent home in 1988, according to a police report obtained completely by the Bangor Daily News.

Jackson, who was 19 at the time, doesn’t dispute the assault of the person, a misdemeanor charge resolved by a effective. But Lana Pelletier, who has been in a relationship with Jackson for roughly 40 years, says she has no reminiscence of making the assertion attributed to her by police and denied he pushed her. In a assertion, Jackson denied he had ever been violent with her.

According to the Bangor Daily News, the police report and witness/sufferer assertion from the time paint a image of a man (Jackson) who appeared to be in the midst of a jealous rage, visiting a home in the early hours of the morning, allegedly kicking the door down, pushing past a man who tried to restrain him, grabbing another man by the throat, and punching him. Here’s what allegedly occurred next:

The sufferer grabbed Jackson and held him by one arm and his throat until one of Jackson’s pals received between the 2 males, the sufferer said. Jackson told the person to “stay away from Lana Pelletier or else,” the sufferer’s assertion said.

Pelletier, who is called Jackson’s ex-girlfriend in the police report, allegedly told the responding officer that Jackson pushed her following the assault and that she deliberate to go to court to get “cease harassment papers” against him. But there’s no report of Pelletier ever doing so, and she denied telling police those issues in a assertion launched by Jackson’s marketing campaign.

The story also famous that “Jackson had been involved in other ‘incidents’ in Fort Kent but had never been previously charged, the officer wrote in his report.”

Can you say “Platner vibes”? Yeah.

Wow – newly surfaced reviews element an incident in which Maine Democrat Senate Candidate Troy Jackson bodily attacked his companion (also his cousin who he has 2 youngsters with) and she was so scared she told police she deliberate to file “cease harassment papers.”

Platner vibes. pic.twitter.com/YPDrH1ocT7

— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) August 13, 2026

For anybody considering “well, that was probably just him being young and hot-headed,” let’s also not neglect the far more latest reviews that Jackson’s mood while in the state senate was such a concern that the issue was elevated to the governor’s workplace at one level, as detailed by The Washington Post:

Troy Jackson, a highly effective Maine legislator now working for Senate, once angrily threw a water bottle in a assembly after he couldn’t persuade a lawmaker to vote his manner.

He yelled at another lawmaker, prompting her to post on social media that straight males had been “too emotional” to be in politics. And he cursed and shouted in a assembly with the speaker of Maine’s state House, until she kicked him out of her workplace.

During the six years Jackson presided over Maine’s Senate, until he left workplace in 2024, his mood was a function of his management, and one that Democratic lawmakers mentioned among themselves as a drawback and even raised with the governor.

This follows reviews that he once received so indignant in a legislative assembly that he threw a water bottle and hit a feminine legislator.

Can Maine Democrats discover a candidate who DOESN’T have a historical past of violently abusing ladies? https://t.co/2098T2wP2g

— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) August 13, 2026

And just like with the myriad Platner scandals, one wonders what’s going to drop next for Jackson? It might be attention-grabbing – and fairly comical – to see what his newfound apologists supporters, including Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17), have to say about all of this, and the reasons they’re possible to come up with.

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