Troy Jackson, a powerful Maine legislator now running for Senate, once angrily threw a water bottle in a meeting after he couldn’t persuade a lawmaker to vote his way. He yelled at another lawmaker, prompting her to post on social media that straight men were “too emotional” to be in politics. And he cursed and shouted in a meeting with the speaker of Maine’s state House, until she kicked him out of her office.
During the six years Jackson presided over Maine’s Senate, until he left office in 2024, his temper was a feature of his leadership, and one that Democratic lawmakers discussed among themselves as a problem and even raised with the governor....
His temperament is coming up as he is on the verge of replacing Democratic candidate Graham Platner[.]
Washington Post, so there's probably a paywall -- thus the longer quote.
Probably he doesn't have Nazi tattoos though, so I guess he meets at least one objective standard for being an improvement. Still, don't they have any guys over there who don't act like this?
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