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How Troy Jackson went from Maine logger to the Democratic nominee for Senate against Susan Collins
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ALLAGASH, Maine (AP) — Troy Jackson stood alongside a small group of loggers deep in the northern Maine woods and stared down State Police troopers who threatened to arrest them.
That moment set the fifth-generation lumberjack on a path into politics, eventually making him Maine’s unlikely Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate.
Collins, 73, who is also from Aroostook County, has accused Jackson of being too liberal for the state.
“What I am is a guy from northern Maine that’s a logger,” Jackson said.
Hafford, who worked alongside Jackson as a logger, has seen that fiery side but chalked it up to strong feelings.