Well, this is different.
The latest Democrat candidate for US Senate from Maine, the one who was appointed by the party and not elected, Troy Jackson, married his second cousin and has two kids with her.
Investigative reporter Steve Robinson from Maine posted this bombshell on Thursday.
— Steve Robinson (@SteveRob) July 30, 2026
Jackson went to high school in Allegash, Maine with his childhood sweetheart, second cousin, and future wife at Kent High School.
Allegash has a population of 240 so there is not much of a selection in the area for those looking for love in rural Maine.
According to Robinson:
Jackson, a 26-year politician and lobbyist, has made a career of bragging that he’s a is a fifth-generation logger, but you don’t have to go far back the generational line to find where it crosses paths with the ancestors of his significant other Lana M. Pelletier.
Allagash tipsters and genealogical records confirm that Jackson’s longtime significant other, Lana Pelletier — his high school sweetheart and the mother of his two adult sons, Chace and Camden — is, in fact, his second cousin by blood.
Jackson and Pelletier share the same great-grandparents: Thomas Pelletier and Edith Thibodeau. Thomas and Edith’s daughter Albertine was Troy’s grandmother; their son Louis Sr. was Lana’s grandfather. That makes Troy and Lana second cousins on the Pelletier line.
Troy Jackson was asked about dating advice in rural Allegash after the story broke about his marriage to his cousin.
Just caught up with Troy Jackson in DC — asked him for some dating advice since he apparently knew the right places to take his cousin
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— Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) July 31, 2026
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