Aroostook County

It is.

Both of them have deep roots in Aroostook County, which is this vast, remote northern logging region.

Right.

Jackson is a fifth-generation logger himself, and he is running a highly populist working class campaign specifically targeting corporate power.

The dynamics of Aroostook County are just perfect for encapsulating the shifting political realignments of the last decade.

How do you mean?

mean?Well, a fifth generation logger running a populist campaign against an established legacy senator.

As a Mainer, you know, I kinda understand it.

She's from a very rich family up in Aroostook County.

Indeed.

And he is not.

Yeah.

You and I are gonna broadcast live from certain locations throughout Aroostook County in western New Brunswick, and during those live broadcasts is the only time people can sign up.

When are we doing this?

Between now and June 7th.

Translation: we think we're pretty cool.

Yes, I guess they do.

Well, then the other guys here, they say, "We have the most valuable broadcast signal in all of Aroostook County."

Translation: we think we're pretty cool.

So Troy and his second cousin signed off on that agreement that they were going to make it their primary residence.

at the same time that he was also claiming to be a resident of Aroostook County, like 260 miles away in Allagash.

So this is a conflict here where he's telling the bank he lives in one place.

He's telling the Maine Ethics Commission he lives in another place.

But he...

He says, quote in the letter, for more clarity, the lawyer representing the Godbouts, the family that he was suing, sent us a letter in 2024 saying that I had violated HUD law when we applied for the mortgage.

He said the home we were purchasing could not be my primary home because as a state senator for district number one, my home had to be in Aroostook County.

He said that if we paid them $40,000 and dropped the case, then they wouldn't go to the media.

I have not married my second cousin.

I am not from Aroostook County, Maine.

I am not f- I am not Troy Jackson.

844-500-4242, 844-500-4242.

Yeah.

So Troy Jackson is kind of a cartoonish figure from Aroostook County, which is the north- northernmost county on the border with Canada.

And he emerges on the political scene, uh, in the late, uh, 1990s where he, uh, uh, drove a skidder truck with a bunch of other woodsmen up to the border because, uh, labor was coming over from Canada and depressing the, uh, the price that, uh, American workers could get.

They didn't like the fact that they were having to compete against foreign labor.

They theorized she was taken from Portland against her will by an older boyfriend and his acquaintance.

She was prevented from leaving while working on a potato farm in Aroostook County then died on a Maliseet/Tobique First Nations reservation in New Brunswick.

The Moultons never stopped talking about Kathy and pushing the police to do more.

Roy Moulton died at age 92 in 2017 without ever knowing what happened to his daughter.

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Growing up in Aroostook County, I learned the value of hard work picking potatoes.

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It is Saturday, October the 10th.

The closely watched race for the U.S. Senate in Maine is pitting two environmentally concerned candidates against each other.

Not only do they both have fairly similar green and climate views, they're also both from Aroostook County, the sparsely populated and northernmost region in a state that is 90% forested.

Incumbent Republican U.S.

Senator Susan Collins, seeking her sixth term in office, comes from a family that dates back five generations in the lumber business and is a political dynasty.