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Posted on 05/12/2026 8:11:31 AM PDT by bitt
Robert Allerton Cushman III, the son of a Harvard-educated Canadian public health official, has flown under the radar as Platner casts himself as a blue-collar commercial fisherman
Maine's far-left Democratic Senate nominee, Graham Platner, has leaned on his career as a "working-class" oyster farmer to cast himself as a blue-collar everyman. His Ivy League business partner—who owns the secluded island where the farm is based—is, well, anything but.
Robert Cushman III is an elite New England boarding school graduate who has described his habit of drinking "foraged spring water with Redmond sea salt." He got into the oyster farming business, he has said, after having had a "liminal seafood experience" at the age of four.
The website for the Platner-Cushman farm—which is officially called the Frenchman Bay Oyster Company but does business under the name of Waukeag Neck Oyster Co.—describes Cushman as a "local food" advocate with "long-time family ties" to Maine. But Cushman was born in Africa and raised in Canada, according to an interview he gave to CKTH, short for Can't Knock the Hustle, an online wetsuit store that sells $25 wooden hangers and counts Cushman as a "founding member." He has spoken of spending summers in Maine with his family, and his "liminal seafood experience in Maine," he said in 2010, came when he "was about four and it involved fresh mussels collected a hundred feet from the table."
"I crave that rich, savory rush of amino acids that it has in such abundance," Cushman said, describing his love of seafood in an interview with Greenhorns, an organization focused on "food justice" and creating a "welcoming cultural space."
After attending the St. Paul's School in New Hampshire—an ultra-elite boarding school that costs upwards of $80,000 a year and is the subject of the 2012 book Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School—Cushman went to Dartmouth College, where he studied religion and "cultural anthropology," and then received a master's degree in agriculture, food, and environment from Tufts University. He moved to Maine around 2011, according to his LinkedIn, working as an "aquaculture research assistant" and as a "dorm parent" at a private academy on the coast. In 2018, he joined Platner as a partner in the Frenchman Bay Oyster Company.
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(yes, I am aware he's "covered up" the tattoo):
Good Lord, what a foo-foo.
The only other guy I can remember with a "III" in his name went on a three hour tour long ago with his Lovey...
If he wins ,Hope he turn out to be a Fetterman .HAHAHAHAHAHA
Why post this puff piece in favor of this Nazi?
Here I thought Free Beacon was conservative in nature. Guess I was wrong.
So he is a puppet being funded by this billionaire.
I have a cousin from Florida, he drinks water that doesn’t have Redmond sea salt in it, I don’t have to tell what he is like.
Platner is a complete loser who is being propped up by the left as an “everyman” to go after Collins. The guy is scary.
There is always a connection to the Grift.
Senator Collins must have thanked her lucky stars after Janet “Auntie” Mills dropped out, realizing that the bozo Platner would be her opponent. “Thank you, Jesus!”
Hmmm
Seems the father retired bout the same time this oyster thingy launched
“Cushman has described his morning routine as follows: “I start by hydrating with foraged spring water with Redmond sea salt then seek out direct sunlight or red light (EMR-TEK),” he told CKTH in 2024. “If I can, I then do some Wim Hof breath-work in a SaunaSpace followed by a cold shower. If it’s summer, then I take a cold plunge in my modified chest freezer. All this is followed by a somewhat experimental coffee recipe and meditation, journaling and reading.””
Talk about self indulgence!
I don’t know....those are some HARD lefties up there...
Prime pickins for the charlatans who play them.
Mostly in southern cities. The local TV station have FB pages that are constantly propping up lefties. It’s clickbait, fer shur, but the comments are generally brutal towards Platner.
“Senator Collins must have thanked her lucky stars after Janet “Auntie” Mills dropped out, realizing that the bozo Platner would be her opponent. “Thank you, Jesus!” “
Definitely not.
Platner always polled much better against her.
The clueless Boomers on here think “he haz nazee tattoo” and that ends his campaign.
But that is not correct.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2026/maine/collins-vs-platner
....he studied religion and “cultural anthropology,”.....
Cultural anthropology is a real thing!
I know people who received PhDs in that field—from Harvard. One was my roommate in graduate school!
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