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Posted on 07/11/2026 5:54:42 PM PDT by Rummyfan
He was a fabrication from the start. The son of a wealthy lawyer presented as a working class hero. No one cared that it was a lie. No one cared that he was credibly accused of rape. Until they did.
I’m going to veer from sports today to venture into politics. Maine politics. Democrat Party politics. And Graham Platner, the Democrat nominee for Senate in Maine who recently suspended his campaign after so much dirt came out on him that his numbers finally started dropping. Only when the polling dropped did the Democratic Party descend to say yeah you gotta go.
Platner, the 41-year-old Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine, positioned himself (and was positioned faithfully by the party and the media) as a working-class hero: a Marine veteran and “oyster farmer” taking on entrenched elites like longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins. He’s got tats! He’s military! He does a little sexual assault but what red-blooded American man doesn’t!
He won the June 2026 primary with a commanding ~72% of the vote (over 150,000 ballots), fueled by populist appeal and frustration amongst Maine voters with the party establishment.
But Platner was no blue-collar everyman. He is the son of a wealthy lawyer (his father, Bronson Platner, a Dartmouth-educated attorney), the grandson of a renowned architect and briefly attended the elite Hotchkiss prep school. His oyster farm operation drew scrutiny as potentially subsidized by family wealth, with low reported earnings ($5k/year with the only customer being his mom’s restaurant) and questions about its authenticity as a working-class venture. Media portrayals glossed over his privileged background to sell the rugged outsider narrative.
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Maine is a swing state and Collins is practically a Democrat. They can’t run to the left of Collins, not really.
So maybe they want to run to the RIGHT of Collins, and since these idiots ACTUALLY BELIEVE we are all actual Nazis, maybe they saw Platner as the ideal candidate.
Because they are stupidly brainwashed.
Just a theory…
Make a note - the commies had to ditch a rapey nazi - and are upset about it.
But
Troy Jackson threw a beer bottle at a woman’s head, causing her to bleed, while he was in a drunken rage!
Then the puppet master tells their useful idiots who will assume office after they manufacture as many ballots as are necessary.
I was the son of alcoholics dad was a chopper pilot. Mom was something else but brilliant. Raised by my Sainted Grandparents as was my brother. Got my degrees by working on the drilling rigs in South Louisiana. That is how I paid for tuition and board. I was fortunate to grow up this way. It makes you hard but kind to those that need. I will not give you a handout. I will find you a job.
I was “everyman.” Platner is a fake piece of lies.
Yep, two working class guys.../s
AZ Joe stop with this trope. I have already outlined the facts as they are known and you have acknoledged you read the post. Posting what you have posted leaves Free Republic and you open to a libel suit.
The alleged incident happen at a senate legislative dem caucus. These are meetings were the parties go off to private rooms to discuss strategy during the legislative session. It happened behind closed doors where only dem state senators were at. It was also several years ago and I have not been able to find reporting on it from that time period.
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You should see his handlers all very pressed out clean cut socialist or DSA’s..and they appear much younger than him too. Compared to them Planner looks aged and crawled out of a woodpile
Yeah, so he’s full of crap, but so is the democrat party. What’s the problem?
The allegation has been denied.
“The group conceded that people close to Jackson were denying the account.”
Another allegation:
“Platner’s collapse came fast and it came ugly.
“A woman he used to date accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2021, saying she resisted the entire time.”
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