IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Troy Jackson Cosponsored Bill Sending Millions of Taxpayer Dollars to His Son’s Lobbying Client.

Chace Jackson’s arrangement with the academy was unusual. He served as the legislative designee while simultaneously representing corporate clients as a lobbyist for the Resurgam Group, the “full service lobbying” firm founded by his father’s former chief of staff and current campaign adviser, B.J. McCollister. State agencies in Maine are required to appoint full-time employees as legislative designees to avoid retaining pricey outside firms for state-level lobbying. The University of Maine’s legislative designee, for example, is its chief governmental affairs officer, Samantha Warren, who has held the role for nearly a decade and has not worked as an outside lobbyist during that time. None of the more than 300 active legislative designees, in fact, are registered lobbyists with outside firms, according to a Free Beacon review.

That the bill passed the Maine Senate but failed to become law came as a pleasant surprise.