Troy Jackson, now pushing affordability message, voted to raise taxes in Maine

Affordability has become a core pillar of Maine Democratic candidate Troy Jackson’s campaign platform, as he promises to lower the cost of living for working-class families if elected to the U.S. Senate. But as Maine’s assistant Senate majority leader, Jackson voted to adopt a state budget that raised the tax burden on

Before he was running for U.S. Senate as an opponent of "greedy corporations" and "high-priced lobbyists," Troy Jackson was the leader of Maine Senate Democrats' campaign arm, which accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from corporate PACs and lobbyists as Jackson led the upper chamber in