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Statement from Maine Democratic Party Leadership on Allegations Against Graham Platner
Maine Democrat Party ^ | July 6, 2026 | Maine Democrat Party

Posted on 07/06/2026 3:08:32 PM PDT by Steven Scharf

Augusta, Maine — “Maine Democratic Party leadership takes seriously our responsibility to hold every candidate who seeks to represent our state to the highest standard.

Over the past several weeks, multiple women have made serious, credible allegations against Graham Platner. Today’s statements take those allegations even further.

Maine Democratic Party leadership is calling on Graham Platner to withdraw as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate.

The Maine Democratic Party leadership stands with women and survivors, and that principle does not bend based on party affiliation. We respect the women who made the hard decision to come forward. Speaking up is often costly.

We are entrusted with deciding who represents our values and who carries our banner. That responsibility requires judgment, leadership, and a willingness to act when circumstances demand it.

This Senate race comes at a pivotal moment in the struggle against a government, supported by Senator Collins, that serves the interests of the wealthy and powerful at the expense of ordinary Maine people. It is essential that we refocus this campaign on that struggle”.

Charlie Dingman, Chair

Imke Schessler, Vice Chair

Devon Murphy-Anderson, Executive Director


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KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; grahamplatner; grahamplattner; maine; portaplatner; susancollins; ussenate
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To: Getready

Sharks, lawyers and “Scumbag democrats” have to respect their peers.


21 posted on 07/06/2026 3:28:57 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Steven Scharf

LOL having a Nazi tattoo they supported him, him whacking off watching Oct 7th videos they supported him, laughing at a teenage girl trying to kill herself and asking “she could have tried harder” they supported him, the NYT article a few weeks ago talking about how he was abusive and assaulted a woman, they supported him..him on a app that is called “Predators paradise” and supposedly texting underage girls and perhaps even having sex with them, they supported him, but this, THIS they said “OK we are done drop out” PLEASE, this has NOTHING to do with these allegations, this has to do with POLLING that shows he will lose badly to Collins, polling shows Collins up 4, which in Maine standards considering she always trails in polls means she is up 10+ the left could give a rats ass about rape allegations, they have always known this guy is a sleaze bag, but they see he just cant win so they are done with him


22 posted on 07/06/2026 3:29:07 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Rummyfan

Ro....

He is so butt ugly if I had a dog that looked like that I’d shave his rear end and teach him to walk backwards.


23 posted on 07/06/2026 3:30:02 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Steven Scharf

Where are they going to find another dedicated Nazi to take his place? Maybe that woman from Austin?


24 posted on 07/06/2026 3:30:10 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Verginius Rufus

I (unfortunately) lived in Massachusetts in the mid 70’s and worked with a woman that told me that Massachusetts would always vote for a Kennedy no matter what they had done. That is the mind set there.


25 posted on 07/06/2026 3:31:51 PM PDT by vis a vis
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To: rlmorel

Great gif....

Dems out on a limb.

“I see they brought their brain trust.”
——James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever seeing the hapless hired guns in Las Vegas.


26 posted on 07/06/2026 3:32:34 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Steven Scharf

So now the democrat party gets to choose the nominee instead of the voters. Just like the shit they pulled making Kamala the nominee when Biden quit.

Remember, these are the same democrats who keep whining about having their “democracy stolen”.


27 posted on 07/06/2026 3:33:55 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Steven Scharf

The Democrats are all about “democracy”. This man won the primary with the voters knowing everything but this conveniantly-timed last ditch allegation. What the party bosses think should have nothing to do with it. Stay in the race!


28 posted on 07/06/2026 3:36:05 PM PDT by Stingray51 ( )
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To: Steven Scharf

ABC News said he has to drop out by the 13th in order to get replaced by the Democrats.


29 posted on 07/06/2026 3:38:41 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Steven Scharf
Let's hope so, but he's essentially a clone of Clinton. He may be more hostile, and less of a pouting, whining b*tch than Clinton, but, summing up all their crimes, it's a wash.

Both are stone commies. Bill is an aristocratic commie groomed from his youth, Oxford, Yale law, the whole enchilada.

The Maine perv had to hit up his parents to become a phony businessman and claim some vague self-made status, all false. But he's just another perv like Clinton.

Both are seriously defective human beings.

30 posted on 07/06/2026 3:39:50 PM PDT by caddie (Going forward we all need to become Trump, and also Captain Obvious, and Charlie Kirk too. )
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To: Steven Scharf

SWTH is an IMKE????


31 posted on 07/06/2026 3:41:33 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: caddie

So true, but at least AR finally woke up, and B.C. seems to no longer visit Little Rock.


32 posted on 07/06/2026 3:42:00 PM PDT by Theodore R. ( )
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To: Steven Scharf

“Augusta, Maine — “Maine Democratic Party leadership takes seriously our responsibility to hold every candidate who seeks to represent our state to the highest standard.”

Ha ha ha ha


33 posted on 07/06/2026 3:42:13 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Steven Scharf

Love the metaphor, though now I’m hungry

Looks like there really is a point below which these soulless goons that run the rat party are not willing to sink. On the other hand, read an article quite a number of weeks back, might have been Mark Halperin, suggesting g that the party was planning a move like this


34 posted on 07/06/2026 3:42:14 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Rummyfan

Ro Khanna is an UGLY LEFTY...there is NOTHING MODERATE about him or his politics!!!


35 posted on 07/06/2026 3:42:58 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Steven Scharf

Looked up “ NAZI RAPIST” in the dictionary, and guess whose picture was there!!!!!


36 posted on 07/06/2026 3:47:22 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: blackdog

“Porta-Potty wanking”

LOL.

Now there is an epitaph worth the moniker.


37 posted on 07/06/2026 3:47:27 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: rlmorel

William Errs?


38 posted on 07/06/2026 3:48:44 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Steven Scharf

Susan Collin’s is the RINOest of RINOs, but we need her, and she got very lucky.


39 posted on 07/06/2026 3:52:35 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (When your Supreme Leader is easily whacked by Jews, reconsider how Akhbar your Allah is!)
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To: Steven Scharf
Maine Democratic Party leadership takes seriously our responsibility to hold every candidate who seeks to represent our state to the highest standard.

If only he had a few more SS tattoos, he might still be in the race.

He could really cement his candidacy against any controversy if photos and videos are released of Platner participating in the Oct 7 invasion from Gaza into Israel.

40 posted on 07/06/2026 4:06:43 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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