Troy Jackson Address to Maine Dem Convention

ADDRESS TO THE MAINE STA TE PA RTY STA TE CONVENTION Sen. Troy Jackson of Aroostook 1 June 2012 Hello Friends, brothers, and sisters. Thank you for being here tonight as we enjoy the sense of collective identity that this weekend’s Convention provides. I hope it is as inspiring to you as it is to me, to join with so many other Democrats and like-minded thinkers to discuss the future of our party. That is what I would like to talk about this evening: where we’ve been, and where we’re going. We all have many theories and beliefs about the losses of 2010. Some say they occurred because of national conditions, some mention the emergence of the Tea Party and others claim it was a failure of Democrats to message effectively. I can’t speak to what happened elsewhere, but I believe that here in Maine it was an unfortunate misconception that had been slowly building for years that Democrats did not have the best interests of different kinds of places in the state at heart. We know that to be far from the truth and the stakes to prove it have never been so high. Since Paul LePage and the new majority have been in power we’ve seen children, women, and the elderly targeted in an effort to play the most political of games. We’ve seen teachers punted about like footballs because it makes good campaign talking

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Troy Jackson Address to Maine Dem Convention