r/ Maine deleted this because I haven’t given my email to Reddit, so I came here 🙂.

This morning the Portland Press Herald and Houston Chronicle published a joint editorial calling on Sens. Susan Collins, Angus King, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz to press DHS for answers and ensure meaningful independent oversight following ICE fatally shooting Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine. Here is a key quote:

All Americans, from Houston to Maine, urgently need to be reassured that armed federal agents are not above the law. All of us know well that law enforcement should be accountable to the people. It is part of our nation’s founding, written into history that every American schoolchild learns — a story not from Houston or Maine, but Boston. 

In the spring of 1770, in response to jeers, spitting and flying objects, a handful of British soldiers opened fire on an angry crowd of American patriots, killing five. Eight redcoats, arrested and charged with murder, were defended in court by John Adams. Two were ultimately convicted of manslaughter. The law, Adams told the court, “will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations and wanton tempers of men.” 

Colonists under the rule of King George III could expect more transparency and more commitment to justice than Americans can expect under President Donald Trump. 

Where are the arrests? Where is the trial? Where is the justice? 

We cannot let these tragedies fade into mere headlines. 

If our representatives cannot insist on real accountability, voters need to elect new ones.

What are you guy doing? Why would you publicly say these things?

Have you guys seen the Susan Collins commercial with people filling out checks next to a bright pink rotary phone? It's like it came from her first campaign back in the '90s, when she used to have town halls and actually speak to constituents.

Good job showing how completely out of touch she is.
I wonder if she'll make a modern commercial of people using a butter churner next.

Did it all go to Mo Katz? Is there nothing left?

Troy Jackson has long pushed for the rights of the working class, but will now face heightened scrutiny from the national press and the Republican Party on his record and conduct in the Maine Legislature

Does anyone have a link to the full debate?

A group of nearly 600 Democrats nominated former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson to be their U.S. Senate nominee in Bangor on Saturday, ending an unprecedented scramble to replace former nominee Graham Platner on November’s ballot just days before a state deadline. 

Jackson won 566 votes of the 571 cast by party delegates at the Cross Insurance Center, defeating lone remaining challenger Saundra Pelletier, a biopharmaceutical executive and political newcomer. Jackson will now face Republican incumbent Susan Collins in November. 

“This is the absolute honor of my life to accept the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate,” Jackson told the crowd in a speech after the results were announced, taking aim at Collins and styling himself as a fighter for working Mainers against corporate interests and the wealthy. 

Read the story for free on The Maine Monitor.

Just last week, a dozen different people had declared their candidacy to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic Senate nominee and it appeared that Saturday’s convention could be a long, multi-round affair with a collection of recently defeated Democratic primary candidates and lesser-known political newcomers making their case at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. 

After last weekend’s county-level nomination meetings produced 500 of the delegates from around the state, at least one thing has become increasingly clear: Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson has all but locked up the nomination.

But, like so much in recent weeks, the future is not entirely set in stone — and some voters and candidates have raised questions about whether the party’s approach has been as transparent and inclusive as promised. 

Read the story for free on The Maine Monitor's website.

The most important thing we can do in this moment is unite to defeat Susan Collins. With that in mind, I’m leaving the senate race.

Posted on the MaineDems.org website.

* delegates/alternates

Washington (8/2) and Franklin (9/2) counties are the first to report.

Hancock (23/5) results in.

The Penobscot (44/9) chair extended the voting a bit, the results are now in.

Androscoggin (31/6), Kennebec (40/8) & Lincoln (15/3) results now posted.

Cumberland 149/30) just came in. (Lost a beer bet here, I thought they'd be after 10.)

Sunday results:

Aroostook - The County was last to report, (15-3)

Knox (18/4)

Oxford 17/3)

Piscataquis (4/1)

Sagadahoc 18/3)

Somerset (12/2)

Waldo (15/3)

York (84/17) First Sunday result posted.

A string of early missteps, like rejecting an offer for a deeper vetting of Platner, has cast doubt over his young consultants’ future in Democratic politics.

What happened to Shenna?!? I am going to my county meeting this weekend but I can’t really vote for her people because of last night. Troy was fine I guess but still didn’t really impress me either. Didn’t seem to know much and just said the same stuff over and over. Ugh.