Candidate Had Two Children With Second Cousin

Getty / Fort Kent High School A report published Thursday claims Maine Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson spent decades building a life with his high school sweetheart, Lana Pelletier, who also happens to be his second cousin. According to Robinson’s genealogy trace of family records, reported by journalist Steve Robinson, the couple shares the same great-grandparents, Thomas Pelletier and Edith Thibodeau. Their daughter, Albertine Pelletier O’Leary, was Jackson’s grandmother, while their…