I’m enthusiastically voting for Troy Jackson for governor. Here’s why:
• Troy is all in to make health care affordable. I know on day one he will act to establish upper payment limits for costly health and life-preserving prescription drugs. He will address the role of private equity that’s distorting the health care marketplace, and regulate insurance middlemen who steer business to their own pharmacies at the expense of independent businesses in rural areas.
• Troy knows from his own experience what it’s like to grow up in a family and a community struggling to make ends meet. He sponsored the law to fund universal school lunch and has always stood with workers to fight for fair wages and working conditions.
• Troy has a strong environmental ethic, supporting measures to get forever PFAS chemicals out of our water and farmland, and to conserve both public lands and access to working forests and waterfronts.
I want the next governor to work to bring all of Maine together — we need job opportunities paying a living wage and affordable housing and child care in northern and interior Maine as well as in fast-growing coastal areas. I’m confident that Troy Jackson will work hard to represent the interests of everyone in the state. I encourage everyone to support him.…Read more by Deb Sayer