{"id":774824,"date":"2026-07-21T00:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774824\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T00:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:03:07","slug":"democrat-set-to-replace-platner-in-maine-led-state-senate-with-a-temper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774824\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat set to replace Platner in Maine led state Senate with a temper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FVMAZLWF4JF43BPRX33IRKZCBQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Troy Jackson, a powerful Maine legislator now running for Senate, once angrily threw a water bottle in a meeting after he couldn\u2019t persuade a lawmaker to vote his way.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"D5TW2YW4YBDVTCKEDZFCRA3VGY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">He yelled at another lawmaker, prompting her to post on social media that straight men were \u201ctoo emotional\u201d to be in politics. And he cursed and shouted in a meeting with the speaker of Maine\u2019s state House, until she kicked him out of her office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Jackson, a powerful Maine legislator now running for Senate, once angrily threw a water bottle in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-774824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}