Bangor Democrat seeks to challenge Jared Golden in a primary
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Michael Sutton, Democrat from Lewiston, filed paperwork last week to take on the incumbent, second-term Democrat U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in 2022.
While Sutton is hardly a political powerhouse, his willingness to jump into a race against his party’s sitting congressman is an indication of unease within Democratic ranks at Golden’s refusal to go along with major party initiatives in Congress.
Most prominently, Golden was the only Democrat on Capitol Hill to vote against the $1.9 trillion COVD-19 recovery measure that Biden signed into law last week. Mainers for Accountable Leadership, a liberal group in the state, said last week that Golden “voted against helping the people of Maine.”
He has also voted this year against a police reform bill, two firearms bills and Nancy Pelosi’s reelection as speaker of the House.
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