You can't make this stuff up.
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That's … weird.
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First, there was the woman-abusing, Nazi-tattooed Graham Platner.
His replacement? Still not good.
From Townhall:
If you look for a trainwreck, there should be a picture of Platner. Still, Jackson isn't much better. He ran for governor in the state's primaries and lost, which we'll cover soon. He also has a temper problem, but this story focuses on his non-marriage to his wife, Lana Pelletier, with whom he has two children. They're second cousins, which has sparked a bunch of Deliverance jokes.
Maine is the new Arkansas!
The issue with Jackson is that while he may call Lana his wife, they're not married, an arrangement that's been an open secret in the Allagash enclave. Maine does not recognize common-law marriage, so the now-mandatory financial disclosure forms for candidates might not shed full light on the subject. Still, the whole cousin angle — didn't see that coming, and neither did 23andMe.
Needless to say, after the Platner debacle, the internet had a field day with this new weirdness:
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For real, though.
At least the Nazi just put all his awfulness on full display.
It doesn't end there, however. Jackson was confronted in public about the fact that he's been shacking up with his cousin all this time:
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Can the Democrats find someone even more creepy to enter the race?
We'll see.
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