MILLINOCKET, Maine — The man who led a successful campaign for the creation of a national monument on land his family gave to the federal government in the Katahdin region plans to run for Congress.
Democrat Lucas St. Clair announced his candidacy for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District at the Appalachian Trail Cafe in Millinocket on Monday.
The venue highlighted his family’s donation of 87,562 acres that is now Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. St. Clair said that the experience running the campaign to create the monument was a key element of his decision to run.
“It’s given me the confidence and the feeling of capability to take that kind of effort and bring it to the United States Congress,” St. Clair said during his appearance.
If he tops a June Democratic primary field that currently includes four others, St. Clair would go on to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin.
Poliquin has advocated aggressively against the national monument designation.
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