Jared Golden: “Good. Good. That just seems like a common, that you can hold yourself to the standard you would hold other, some of your…”

Mr. LePage and his Democratic challenger, Matt Dunlap, were a far cry from being standard bearers of the generations that will inherit the legacy of today’s Congress.

Regardless of what angry partisan commentators may say, I retain the trust of the coalition of Democrats, independents and Republicans.

It’s about protecting the working-class communities those men and women support. In my district, lobster fishing is the backbone of towns up and down the coast.

I have grown tired of the increasing incivility and plain nastiness.