Maine's Democratic Senate nominee fathered two children with his second cousin and spent years calling her his wife — and the Beltway press corps can barely muster a yawn. Troy Jackson, who secured the nomination July 25 to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins, has been in a decades-long relationship with Lana Pelletier, who shares his great-grandparents, according to reporting by independent journalist Steve Robinson published by The Maine Wire. If the party letter next to his name were an R, this would be leading every cable broadcast in the country.
Here is what the record shows. Jackson and Pelletier are second cousins — the children of first cousins. Jackson's maternal grandmother and Pelletier's paternal grandfather were siblings, according to genealogical records unearthed by Robinson. The couple raised two adult sons, Chace and Camden, and Jackson referred to Pelletier as his
