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B<\/span>angor, M<\/span>aine<\/em>\u2014As delegates to the Maine Democratic Party\u2019s special Senate nominating convention on Saturday morning filed into a convention center in the former \u201clumber capital of the world,\u201d a box truck sponsored by Teamsters Local 340 pulled up to the curb. It was flying \u201cTroy Jackson for Senate\u201d flags from the hood, and the trucker inside pumped his fist to egg on the attendees. Inside, a handful of union officials compared notes on fifth-generation logger and former state Senate president Troy Jackson\u2019s improbable ascent from second runner-up in the primary for governor to emergency Senate nominee. Jake Teitelbaum\u2014secretary of the Maine Service Employees Association, a union that represents state employees\u2014explained it to me: \u201cMaybe some of the other candidates could mobilize money quickly, but Troy had the connection to labor. And we mobilize people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jackson\u2019s political career began in the late 1990s when he joined 14 fellow loggers in a wildcat strike in northern Maine. Not surprisingly, during his two decades as a state legislator in Augusta, his support for organized labor was unwavering. Those enduring ties help explain why Jackson was able to outmaneuver his rivals to secure enough delegates to turn Saturday\u2019s convention into a coronation ceremony.<\/p>\n

As the assembled delegates waited to sit down in the hall where his nomination would be made official, some gathered around a TV playing clips of Susan Collins expressing concern at any number of Trump administration outrages, then picked up signs reading \u201cRetire Susan\u201d on one side and \u201cNo more concerns\u201d on the other. Everyone who wasn\u2019t already wearing swag from SEIU or the UAW found themselves pulling on a blue or yellow Troy Jackson shirt as a show of party unity.<\/p>\n

One exception was B.J. McCollister, one of the Jackson campaign\u2019s lead strategists, who stood near the TV in a blue suit looking bleary-eyed. McCollister said he\u2019d barely slept in days, not that he minded. \u201cI\u2019ve worked in Maine politics for 15 years,\u201d he said, \u201cand I\u2019ve never seen anything like the energy over the past week.\u201d McCollister told me that more than 1,000 volunteers had leapt into action as soon as Graham Platner dropped out of the Senate race, making it possible for Jackson\u2019s hastily thrown-together campaign to contact tens of thousands of Mainers ahead of the county meetings where his victory was secured. When I asked what it would take to keep that level of energy going through the general election, McCollister cited the support of organized labor: \u201cTroy has always stood up for them and now they\u2019re standing up for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCollister excused himself as the delegates began to head into the convention hall to find their seats. In the rush, I found Cynthia Phinney, the president of Maine AFL-CIO. \u201cWe\u2019ve had so many successes in the legislature that Troy was key to,\u201d Phinney enthused, ticking a few on one hand: raising the prevailing wage for workers on publicly funded construction projects, ensuring that apprenticeship programs are recruiting women and minorities, and combating wage theft. Phinney was especially complimentary of Jackson\u2019s willingness to wrestle with Governor Janet Mills over mandating union labor on major projects, a years-long fight that culminated in 2023 when Mills vetoed project labor agreements for the offshore wind industry. \u201cLabor standards are one of the things that a lot of people are first to cave on when it comes time to compromise,\u201d Phinney said. \u201cTroy does not cave on those things. They\u2019re fundamental to any project he\u2019s supporting.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Troy Jackson manages to defeat Susan Collins in November, he will immediately become one of the most influential voices for the labor movement in Washington. With that in mind, I canvassed prominent organizers in Maine as well as Jackson\u2019s colleagues in Augusta ahead of Saturday\u2019s convention in order to get a better sense of exactly how his commitment to unions has manifested over the years in a place that\u2019s not typically associated with organized labor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a rural state,\u201d said Beth Edmonds, who led the Maine Senate when Jackson was first elected to the body in 2008. To her, Jackson\u2019s career proves that labor is not synonymous with the urban working class. \u201cWhen you organize a union here,\u201d she said, \u201cyou\u2019re doing it in a much smaller, more local way. But I think that\u2019s what more and more people are asking for as the economics continue to divide people with huge wealth from the rest of us.\u201d Jackson embodies that broadening of the movement. \u201cTroy represents those who have worked on the ground for a long time,\u201d Edmonds said. \u201cI think that\u2019s going to speak to a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first time a photo of Jackson made the news in 1998, he stood between two fellow loggers in a Chicago Bulls flat brim and flannel shirt, all of them staring down some Maine State Police officers amid their blockade of a border crossing into Quebec. This blockade was one of many in the decades-long effort to stop lumber companies in Maine\u2019s northern tip from hiring Canadian loggers. Because those workers received government-sponsored healthcare in Quebec, companies had long sought them out in order to avoid paying for the benefits American loggers demanded.<\/p>\n

Jackson once told the Maine Beacon<\/em> about how his father\u2019s life had been similarly upended a generation earlier, when his bosses had reclassified his status with the company. \u201cOne day he\u2019s an employee, and the next day he was a contractor,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cI mean, it just happened like that.\u201d By the late \u201990s, loggers like Jackson had ample reason to feel like people in a profession that had formed the backbone of Maine\u2019s economy for two centuries were being left behind.<\/p>\n

While the 1998 blockade drew national attention to the plight of the loggers, Jackson realized that they would need to enact systemic change if they hoped for better employment conditions. It remains a foundational event in his life. On Saturday, Jackson recalled the episode. \u201cThat fight opened my eyes,\u201d he told the crowd of delegates during his victory speech. \u201cI went from somebody that didn\u2019t want to get out of line\u2014was told not to get out of line\u2014to where now I understand that you have<\/em> to get out of line because the people in power are keeping us there.\u201d \u201cWorking people,\u201d he continued, \u201care not powerless. We\u2019re only made to feel<\/em> powerless when we stand alone, and that is what they\u2019re trying to do: divide us. And that\u2019s why I entered public life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson was elected to the state House in 2002, representing the district surrounding his hometown of Allagash in Aroostook County, then moved to the state Senate in 2008. While much has been made of his early conservative views on social issues\u2014Jackson initially opposed abortion and gay marriage, before becoming a champion of both women\u2019s reproductive rights and the LGBTQ as Senate president\u2014nobody has ever doubted his ironclad commitment to labor. Come 2019, he sponsored and passed legislation that made it possible for loggers to finally engage in collective bargaining with lumber companies.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTroy has been a strong worker-progressive from day one,\u201d said Betsy Sweet, a longtime activist known for staging spirited primary challenges against centrist Democrats like Mills and Sara Gideon, the most recent challenger to Collins. While national observers have criticized Jackson\u2019s faltering cadence in his speeches and his everyman approach to politics, Sweet thinks that those qualities are exactly why he has so much credibility with the working class. \u201cHe is different. He isn\u2019t polished. He doesn\u2019t have a consultant telling him what to do,\u201d she said. \u201cHe kind of goes with his gut, but he gets it.\u201d You don\u2019t need to be a stunning orator to reach people if you have \u201cthis visceral sense of injustice. It\u2019s innate. It\u2019s in the fabric of who he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Case in point is how Jackson threw his weight behind an unionization effort by nurses at Maine Medical Center, the state\u2019s largest hospital, in 2021. In an op-ed for the Portland Press Herald<\/em>, Jackson recounted having a heart procedure at Maine Med when pandemic protocols were still in full effect. \u201cLike most Mainers who\u2019ve been hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d Jackson wrote, \u201cI was completely alone.\u201d He described how it was the nurses at the hospital who had \u201cput my anxiety to rest, answered my questions and gotten me back on my feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter all that these nurses have done for me,\u201d he continued, \u201cthe least I can do is be there for them in their hour of need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond providing rhetorical support for the organizing campaign, Kelli Brennan, a nurse at Maine Med, told me that Jackson had proved to be a major ally of their union in Augusta. The first time she met Jackson was during a lobbying event organized by Maine AFL-CIO, when she and other nurses visited the Senate chamber. \u201cHe made sure we all had a place to sit, pulled up a chair, and then he let us go roundtable about what our issues were,\u201d Brennan said. At the time, their main priority was passing a bill that would create nurse-to-patient ratios at Maine\u2019s hospitals. \u201cHe knew that our bill might have some areas where it would be difficult to get other people to compromise on, but that didn\u2019t stop him from supporting us,\u201d Brennan said. (Jackson managed to shepherd the bill through the Senate, though it failed to clear the state House.)<\/p>\n

Jill Duson, a state senator from Portland, was similarly impressed by Jackson\u2019s accessibility. While their constituencies\u2014the state\u2019s largest city and most thinly populated county\u2014would seem to be diametrically opposed to each other, Duson said, \u201cI just found him very open to hearing our concerns and providing useful advice on how we might approach legislators from other communities.\u201d That included a bill that would have helped Portland\u2019s minor league baseball team, the Sea Dogs, renovate their stadium\u2014an issue bound to generate resistance from the rest of the state. For Jackson, the key was highlighting how including labor protections for the construction workers renovating the stadium could set a precedent for future projects. \u201cTroy was instrumental,\u201d Duson said, in arguing \u201cthat it was not a Portland bill. That the success of the Sea Dogs was a success for the entire state\u2014and we actually got that through!\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Jackson is poised for some much larger fights than haggling over project labor agreements for a AA baseball stadium. Reflecting on Jackson\u2019s emergence as a national champion of the working class, Sweet told me, \u201cI believe that there are people in Washington right now freaking the fuck out. They thought they could put this back in the bottle.\u201d Having chaired Bernie Sanders\u2019s presidential campaign in Maine back in 2016, Jackson would undoubtedly join the senior senator from Vermont as among the most progressive legislators on Capitol Hill. Jackson has said that, if elected, he would not support Chuck Schumer\u2019s leadership bid, would push to abolish ICE, and would refuse to approve sending any military funding to Israel.<\/p>\n

After the delegates made Jackson\u2019s nomination official on Saturday, organizers played a song by another favored son of rural New England, Noah Kahan. The 700 or so attendees rose to their feet, waving \u201cRetire Susan\u201d signs in front of an American flag that covered the entirety of one wall, as Kahan\u2019s bright guitar and telling lyrics\u2014\u201cForgive my northern attitude \/ Oh, I was raised out in the cold\u201d\u2014briefly filled the room. Just as quickly, as Jackson took the stage, chants of \u201cTroy! Troy! Troy!\u201d drowned out the music, his crooked smile broadening as he acknowledged the cheers.<\/p>\n

After making his necessary thank-yous, Jackson turned to the matter at hand. \u201cSusan Collins keeps telling us everything is just fine,\u201d he said to jeers and at least one delegate shouting, \u201cBullshit!\u201d Jackson pointed out that Collins has been in the Senate since he and the other loggers were staging their border blockade. \u201cI was just trying to figure out how to keep taking care of my family,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cThirty years later, Susan Collins is still in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey act like we\u2019re idiots,\u201d Jackson said, pausing to throw up his hands in disbelief. \u201cBut we all have eyes. We can see what\u2019s happening. We can see our paychecks and the bills that we have. We know that we are getting screwed, and we also know who\u2019s to blame. I\u2019m running to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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