Graham Platner’s Wife Flagged Sexually Explicit Texts to His Senate Campaign

Wall Street Journal ^ | May 30, 2026 | Tarini Parti and Aaron Zitner

[Red Badger]

The wife of the Maine Democratic Senate candidate last year told the campaign about texts she had found between Platner and other women

Days after Graham Platner announced his Maine Senate bid, his wife informed the campaign about a potential political problem she had previously discovered on the oyster farmer’s phone: sexually explicit texts with several women, according to people familiar with the matter.

Amy Gertner, who married Platner in 2024, told the campaign about messages she had found early in their marriage in the spring of 2025. In late August, as some aides were conducting opposition research on their own candidate, Gertner disclosed the texts to a campaign aide to make sure they didn’t pose a risk to her husband’s nascent campaign, those people said. The campaign had been preparing for a major rally over Labor Day weekend last year with Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was set to officially endorse Platner at the event.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aaronzitner; amygertner; berniesanders; grahamplatner; maine; portaplatner; susancollins; tariniparti; wallstreetjournal

[citizen]

I’m not married; would not want a nosy spouse.

[donozark]

Looks like Platner should have been spending more time shucking oysters and less time shucking his trousers.

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[NewHampshireDuo]

Seems like she got quite a catch in Graham Cracker. And not oysters.

[Red Badger]

😆.......................

[citizen]

LOL

[Red Badger]

Platner is from a wealthy family, and was raised in private schools. This oyster farmer persona is fake..............

[captmar-vell]

Actually, it could be even worse, she could be Mrs. James Talrico.

[rktman]

I’m tellin’ ya. Poster boy for dem candidates. If this portalet’s rockin’, don’t bother knockin’.

[Hyman Roth]

All commies are from wealthy families. Except maybe Bernie Sanders.

[Red Badger]

There’s something seriously wrong with this guy...................

[KitJ]

"Looks like Platner should have been spending more time shucking oysters and less time shucking his trousers."

That's funny right there!

[rktman]

Like i said, poster boy for dems. 😂👍

[Paladin2]

Sanders is now from a wealthy family [and a family that knows how to bankrupt small Colleges].

[citizen]

I think Talarico’s girlfriend is a he.

[Libloather]

This is the nazi guy.

[Texas Eagle]

Eva Braun is still alive???

[captmar-vell]

I think Talrico is some kind of whacked Democrat PSYOP experiment gone wrong, where the smoking wires got melted in the back.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Platner is the reason I’m not a fan of populism, regardless of whether it is on the right or left. Once you get people to stop thinking about principles, it’s much easier to swing them to a different political view.