Golden explains vote against Pelosi for House speaker

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • January 3, 2021

Maine’s 2nd District Congressman, Democrat Jared Golden, broke ranks with party members on Sunday, voting for U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth to become the next speaker of the House. “Climate change, economic disruption, and growing inequality are threatening to destroy the working middle class in America,” he said. “Corporations, the wealthy, and well connected elites hold an outsized and growing power over our political system and government, and the influence of money in politics has been growing, not decreasing.” Incumbent House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was narrowly re-elected.