Two candidates for Bangor City Council had liens filed against them or their businesses in the last two months for unpaid taxes, documents show.

Salty Brick Market, which is owned by council candidate James Gallagher, owes nearly $22,000 to the Maine Revenue Service in unpaid sales and use taxes, while candidate Angela Walker owes about $1,700 in unpaid income taxes, according to publicly available documents from the Penobscot County Registry of Deeds.

Gallagher and Walker both had liens filed against them by the state during their City Council candidacy and just weeks before the election. The two are members of a large pool of nine aspiring councilors competing for Bangor residents’ support ahead of the Nov. 4 election.

Gallagher has frequently spoken about crime and the problems

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