2026-07-30T10:00:26.521Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
2012年，特洛伊·杰克逊对缅因州政坛有诸多评论。作为一名直言不讳的民主党州议员，杰克逊曾公开与时任共和党州长保罗·勒帕热发生争执。
但私下里，杰克逊也会匿名抨击勒帕热。据美国有线电视新闻网的一项分析显示，杰克逊使用“支持勒帕热的加拿大人”这一网络别名，在《班戈每日新闻》网站上发表了数十条帖子，在两人因加拿大伐木工人获准在缅因州工作一事陷入政治斗争之际，经常嘲讽和批评勒帕热。
在勒帕热否决了杰克逊提出的一项限制国有土地上外国劳工的法案后，杰克逊公开指责该州长“更热衷于把工作机会给加拿大人，而非缅因州本地工人”。
与此同时，以“支持勒帕热的加拿大人”为匿名身份在网上发帖的杰克逊，还多次在新闻文章的评论区贬低勒帕热。在一篇关于该州预算的文章的评论区，杰克逊写道：“你和勒帕热一样，都算不上是一名伐木工。”
2012年的另一条评论中，杰克逊可能是在回应另一位读者，他借一篇关于一名民主党议员在分手后获得针对另一名民主党同僚的保护令的报道，对共和党进行了讽刺挖苦，嘲讽共和党人在道德上高于此类行为的论调。
“没错，共和党人绝不会做出类似的事情，”他写道，“他们夜以继日地努力打造善治，哪怕只有一秒空闲，他们也会聚在一起做圣经学习或者玩个痛快的叠叠乐游戏。拜托。”
美国有线电视新闻网的“K文件”栏目通过多项记录将杰克逊与“支持勒帕热的加拿大人”这一别名联系起来，其中包括与杰克逊相关的电子邮箱jacksonforsenate@hotmail.com。
此次杰克逊匿名上网活动的曝光，正值他准备于今年11月的关键参议院选举中挑战共和党现任参议员苏珊·柯林斯之际。杰克逊曾是一名伐木工，还担任过缅因州参议院议长，在进步派 outsider 格雷厄姆·普拉特纳的高调竞选崩盘后，他最近成为民主党提名候选人。
经过数周的严密审查，普拉特纳于本月早些时候退出竞选，此前他的前女友指控其强奸，普拉特纳对此予以否认。
与困扰普拉特纳竞选团队的一些攻击性Reddit帖子不同，杰克逊被存档的评论更像是政治上的互撕——以当时的州长为代价的尖锐笑话、党派抨击、政策争论，甚至还有匿名为自己的工作辩护的内容。
在给美国有线电视新闻网的一份声明中，杰克逊的顾问BJ·麦科利斯特表示：“特洛伊一直是工人权利和为人民服务的政府的坚定且一贯的倡导者。”
账号与杰克逊的关联证据
对杰克逊Hotmail邮箱的搜索结果显示，该邮箱与“支持勒帕热的加拿大人”别名在《班戈每日新闻》的24条存档评论相关联，该搜索依托“别读评论”网站，该网站整合了已保存的帖子与账号信息。这些账号信息来源于2012年Disqus平台的数据泄露事件，当时包括《班戈每日新闻》在内的多家网站都使用Disqus作为读者评论的托管平台。
美国有线电视新闻网还获取了一些与该账号有过邮件往来的人的电子邮件，其中包括杰克逊亲自回复的邮件。
该邮箱地址同时出现在竞选材料、立法记录、缅因州个人财务披露记录中，以及民主党全国委员会的一份内部文件里，该文件明确该邮箱为杰克逊的私人邮箱。另外的泄露记录也将该邮箱与他的私人手机号码关联在一起。
杰克逊似乎后来将个人邮箱更新为一个关联了同一手机号码的Gmail账号。
杰克逊以匿名别名多次模仿一名感激勒帕热政策的加拿大伐木工的形象，嘲讽时任州长。但两人之间的争执绝非单方面的。
在2013年的预算斗争期间，勒帕热使用了粗俗的性隐喻，称杰克逊会“不经任何润滑就将政策强加给民众”。随后他还称杰克逊是“一个坏人”“心肠漆黑”，并表示他“应该回到森林里砍木头，让有脑子的人来这里做正事”。
当一名记者提醒勒帕热，关于凡士林的言论会冒犯他人时，勒帕热回应道：“很好。就该如此。”
杰克逊回应称：“他可以想说什么就说什么；我只是认为他说话的方式不妥当。我们可以意见不合，但没必要说这种下流话。”
2012年1月，勒帕热政府提出了一项全面的失业欺诈法案，将大幅提高对欺诈行为的处罚力度。当时缅因州的失业率欺诈率不到1%。
在一篇报道该提案的文章的评论区，“支持勒帕热的加拿大人”援引州政府关于失业问题的统计数据，指责州长夸大了问题的严重性。评论写道：“这又是我的同胞保罗·勒帕热抛出的另一个转移注意力的话题。”
在一篇关于州长搁置经选民批准的借款提案的报道下方，“支持勒帕热的加拿大人”打趣道：“我不在乎那些债券，只要他批准我的H-2签证，好让我能来缅因州砍木头就行。”
在一篇关于勒帕推迟对《平价医疗法案》做出决定的文章的评论中，杰克逊再次以加拿大工人的身份写道：“但你应该支持这项让我们加拿大人能来美国工作的政府项目，对吧？”
至少有一次，这个匿名账号为特洛伊·杰克逊进行了辩护。
在一篇关于勒帕热否决杰克逊的伐木税收抵免法案的报道下方，该账号写道：“特洛伊没有任何伐木设备。他只是承包商的一名操作员。好好想想这个！”
四分钟后，该账号又回来纠正了对该法案的描述。
“关于第2项——你搞错法案了，”该账号写道，“你说的是萨维耶洛参议员的法案，LD 1383。他的法案取消了所有雇佣外国工人的限制。这对……缅因州人毫无帮助！”
部分交流内容变得相当粗俗。
在一篇关于勒帕热逐项否决法案的报道下方，他似乎对另一位评论者说道：“能不能别在你地下室里做管道炸弹了，把你的共产主义宣言发给我。我得看看你是在编故事，还是在读什么疯言疯语。”
由于《班戈每日新闻》已不再保留最初的Disqus讨论串，目前尚不清楚杰克逊是在回应谁，或是是什么引发了这番言论。
“受不了批评，却偏偏要大肆指责别人，”他在另一条评论中说道。
Troy Jackson ran anonymous account to troll Republicans online
2026-07-30T10:00:26.521Z / CNN
In 2012, Troy Jackson had plenty to say about Maine politics. An outspoken Democratic state lawmaker, Jackson openly feuded with then-Republican Gov. Paul LePage.
But in private, Jackson also took shots at LePage anonymously. Using an online alias, “Canadians for LePage,” Jackson posted dozens of times on The Bangor Daily News website, according to a CNN analysis, routinely mocking and criticizing LePage at a time when the two were caught in a political fight over Canadian loggers being allowed to work in Maine.
After LePage vetoed one of Jackson’s bills restricting foreign labor on state-owned land, Jackson publicly accused the governor of being, “more interested in giving jobs to Canadians rather than Maine workers.”
Meanwhile, posting anonymously online as “Canadians for LePage,” Jackson frequently disparaged LePage in the comments sections of news articles. “You are no more a woodsman than LePage is a Governor,” Jackson wrote in one exchange commenting on an article on the state’s budget.
In another comment in 2012, possibly responding to another reader, Jackson used a report about a Democratic lawmaker obtaining a protection-from-abuse order against a fellow Democratic legislator after their breakup to take a sarcastic swipe at the GOP, mocking the notion that Republicans were morally above such conduct.
“Oh yes, the Republicans never do any thing approaching this,” he wrote. “They are working hard on good government, night and day, and if they have just a one spare moment, they get together for bible study or a good game of tiddly winks. PLEASE.”
CNN’s KFile was able to link Jackson to the “Canadians for LePage” alias through multiple records, including an email address connected to Jackson, jacksonforsenate@hotmail.com.
News of Jackson’s anonymous online activity comes as he prepares to take on Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins in a pivotal Senate race this November. Jackson, a former logger and one-time president of the Maine Senate, recently became the Democratic nominee after the high-profile implosion of progressive outsider Graham Platner.
Following weeks of intense scrutiny, Platner dropped out earlier this month after a former girlfriend accused Platner of rape, an accusation Platner denies.
Unlike some offensive Reddit posts that had dogged Platner’s campaign, Jackson’s archived comments are more akin to political trash talk— pointed jokes at the then-governor’s expense, partisan jabs, policy arguments and even anonymous defenses of his own work.
In a statement to CNN, Jackson adviser BJ McCollister said, “Troy has been a strong and consistent advocate for workers’ rights and for a government that works for the people.”
Breaches and emails link account to Jackson
A search of Jackson’s Hotmail email address on “Don’t Read the Comments,” an archive combining preserved posts with account information, connects the “Canadians for LePage” alias to 24 archived comments on the Bangor Daily News. The account information comes from a 2012 data breach of Disqus, a third-party platform that websites, including the Bangor Daily News at the time, used to host reader comments.
CNN also obtained emails from people who had sent messages to and received replies from the account, including where Jackson replied personally.
The same address appeared in campaign materials, legislative records, and Maine personal finance disclosure records, as well as in an internal Democratic National Committee document identifying it as Jackson’s personal email. Separate leaked records also associated the address with his personal phone number.
Jackson appears to have later updated his personal email to a Gmail account associated with the same personal phone number.
Jackson, through his anonymous alias, repeatedly mocked the then governor by adopting the persona of a Canadian logger grateful for LePage’s policies. But the feud between the two was hardly one-sided.
During a 2013 budget fight, LePage used a crude sexual metaphorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ely-hqmgBu0, saying Jackson would “give it to the people without providing Vaseline.” He then called Jackson “a bad person” with “a black heart” and said he “ought to go back in the woods and cut trees and let somebody with a brain come down here and do some work.”
When a reporter warned that the Vaseline remark would offend people, LePage replied: “Good. It ought to.”
Jackson responded, “He can say whatever he wants; I just think it’s inappropriate the way he said it. We can be disagreeable without making nasty comments like that.”
In January 2012, LePage’s administration proposed a sweeping unemployment fraud bill that would have sharply increased penalties for fraud. Maine’s fraud rate at the time stood at less than one percent.
In the comments section of a story covering the proposal, “Canadians for LePage” cited state statistics on unemployment and accused the governor of exaggerating the problem. “This is another red herring by my countryman, Paul LePage,” the comment read.
Beneath a story about the governor withholding voter-approved borrowing, “Canadians for LePage” quipped: “I don’t care about those bonds, as long as he approves my H-2 bond so I can come to Maine and cut wood.”
And within the comments of an article about LePage delaying decisions on the Affordable Care Act, Jackson again wrote in character as a Canadian worker: “But you like the government program that allows us Canadians to come and work in the US, right?”
On at least one occasion, the anonymous account came to the defense of Troy Jackson.
Beneath a story about LePage vetoing Jackson’s logging tax-credit bill, the account wrote: “Troy doesn’t own any logging equipment. He is just an operator for contractors. Just think about that!”
Four minutes later, the account returned to correct a description of the legislation.
“On item #2—You have the wrong bill,” the account wrote. “You are talking about Senator Saviello’s bill, LD 1383. His bill takes away all restrictions on hiring foreign workers. It does not help…MAINERS!”
Some of the exchanges became considerably more colorful.
Beneath a story about LePage’s line-item vetoes, he appeared to tell another commentator: “Could you stop making pipe bombs in your basement, and send me your Communist manifesto. I have to see if you are making this up or reading from something insane.”
Because the Bangor Daily News no longer hosts the original Disqus thread, it is unclear whom Jackson was responding to or what prompted the remark.
“Can’t take the criticism, but you sure can dole it out,” he remarked in another.
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