Posted on 05/31/2026 6:37:43 AM PDT by Enterprise
Graham Platner exchanged sexually explicit texts with multiple women while married to his wife, Amy Gertner, his campaign confirmed to POLITICO on Saturday, the latest scandal he has faced since launching his Maine Senate campaign last year.
In a statement, Gertner slammed a former friend for spreading “malicious gossip” in the wake of a Wall Street Journal report that she had informed her husband’s campaign of the texts in late August.
“I confided deeply personal details about my marriage to someone I considered a friend,” she said. “In the months since, I have had to watch as she spread malicious gossip to anyone who would take her call. I trusted this person with the most private chapter of our lives — the early days of our marriage before any campaign was on our mind — and I am deeply hurt by her betrayal and the invasion of our privacy.”
While Gertner did not name the friend in question, Genevieve McDonald, a former senior campaign staffer who shared a screenshot of her texts with Gertner with The New York Times, responded by telling POLITICO that “the Platner campaign confirmed these events occurred.”
Gertner, who is paid by the campaign as its volunteer coordinator, said the pair’s relationship is “stronger than ever before.”
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Heck, that’s a plus for any commie candidate.
Maybe the Platners have an “open” marriage? I doubt that plays well statewide for an election. Didn’t that gal out in California have a “throuple” marriage with an extra girl (staffer) and resigned after nude photos of her and the staffer girl were published?
That’s the nazi guy.
I don’t know much about the guy ... but I like Eric Platner.
ISWYDT!.......................
It appears the voters of Maine do not care:
“The most recent University of New Hampshire (UNH) ‘Pine Tree State Poll,’ released on May 27, 2026, shows Platner leading incumbent Sen. Susan Collins by 9 points (51% to 42%).”
Even worse....I’ve seen photos of Platner training members of Antifa how to shoot firearms in the Maine woods.
Communists want to be lied to.
Every time I see him I can’t help but think, that is the face of an alcoholic.
Besides the stuff that’s already come out about this guy, now you have this, I’m sure it’s not the last time we hear about something crazy this guy has been involved with, he appears to be a trainwreck.
Only the Dems could run a neo nazi that actively hates White people. Now it turns out he’s a pervert
Maybe the Dems will just pull the plug on the guy like they did with Swalwell and biden
This story was published 5/30 (Saturday). The poll was conducted earlier in the week.
But I’m sure the voters of Maine will be willfully ignorant enough to vote this bozo in.
The phrase “sexually explicit texts with multiple women” is not going to look good for him when it appears in Collins’ campaign commercials with the citation to Politico.
Anyone with no integrity in their personal lives will have none in their public life.
So, Gertner was “hurt” by the betrayal of her friend, but not the betrayal of her husband???
I do think, however, it is hilarious that MAGA is trying to make this guy's infidelities an issue.
I mean, you can't make it up
Oh, I could not agree more
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