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Maine's Platner Calls To Harass Lawmakers Who Oppose Medicare for All: 'Don’t Let Them Have a Public Dinner’
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 23/11/25 | Jessica Costecu

Posted on 11/23/2025 7:37:04 AM PST by Eleutheria5

WINDHAM, Maine—Senate candidate Graham Platner (D.) urged his supporters to publicly harass members of Maine’s congressional delegation who oppose Medicare for All.

“In the future, when we’re trying to vote on something like Medicare for All, if there are other members of the Maine delegation that don’t want to come along, we need to be able to impose costs,” he said during a Saturday town hall in the southern Maine town of Windham. “We need to be able to turn people out to flood their offices. Frankly, I want people to follow them around and don’t let them have a public dinner without getting yelled at. Because that’s power. That’s real power.”

Platner justified those tactics as a way of building “secondary power.” He said they’re a proven form of political pressure and that “American history tells us that that’s exactly the power that we have.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: 2074222326; 59harborviewdr; antifa; designatedterrorist; domesticenemies; formacrowd; grahamcplatner; grahamplatner; harass; harassment; maine; medicareforall; platner; tran
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Just shooting them down in the street like rabid dogs. How dare they not do our bidding!/s

CW II is just around the corner at this rate.

1 posted on 11/23/2025 7:37:04 AM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

So now we go to mob rule and violence to get what we want? Please tell me how we are going to avoid a civil war and an eventual dictator. If such were done to Platner, almost certainly he WOULD incite violence to get the harrassment to stop.


2 posted on 11/23/2025 7:41:23 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Eleutheria5

The Dems are the worst people in the world! They are little brats that will either grab the ball and go home if they don’t get their way or get so petty you’d think you were back in middle school with a bunch of mean girls!! It’s ridiculous and dangerous.


3 posted on 11/23/2025 7:41:51 AM PST by Trumpette1954 (Live laugh love!)
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To: Eleutheria5
As I wrote elsewhere regarding Maine (emphasis added):

Janet Mills ought to be the favorite in the Rat primary, but if she is it's not by much. One ludicrous poll had her down to Platner by 34 points; that poll must have been taken either on a college campus or in a media newsroom. The geriatric Mills (age 77) started her campaign by refusing to release her medical records, while Platner is suddenly raising million of dollars from the type of people who think that the 2025 election results are a referendum in favor of killing Republicans. It's going to be quite a battle unless Mills bows out or Platner is dragged down by his past (and present). Democrat voters forgave the murderous racist [Jay Jones] in Virginia two weeks ago; Maine Democrats aren't likely to abandon any candidate no matter how much of a lunatic he may be -- as long as they think he can win next November.

4 posted on 11/23/2025 7:43:19 AM PST by PermaRag (Facts, context, and more facts)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

He IS inciting violence—as a form of lobbying. Man’s a psycho, so he’ll probably be elected to represent leftardia—I mean Maine. “An eye for an eye will make us both blind,” he said, after ripping mine out of its socket.


5 posted on 11/23/2025 7:44:10 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

“Democracy” IS mob rule, so this is clearly the “our democracy” that Platner and his cohorts are always yammering about.


6 posted on 11/23/2025 7:44:26 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Eleutheria5

typical commie trash practice. Personal attacks, if not by the speaker then by the NPC loons like Crooks. This is a call for assassination.


7 posted on 11/23/2025 7:46:13 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: PermaRag

Sheila Jackson Lee started this back in 2017, and it’s spinning out of control. Just a matter of time before someone is ki—oh, never mind.


8 posted on 11/23/2025 7:46:35 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Graham Platner is the EX-Marine and all-around lib POS from Maine, ain’t he?


9 posted on 11/23/2025 7:47:34 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The Joe Biden “our democracy” was kleptocracy and corruption institutionalized. Platner’s “our democracy” is one step further to outright thuggery. Two wolves and a sheep vote on what’s for dinner.


10 posted on 11/23/2025 7:48:21 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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Don’t know him, but this call for harassment is all I need to make up my mind. The rest is the dinkleberry cherry on the sh!t sundae.


11 posted on 11/23/2025 7:49:28 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

This was the creed of Hitler’s Brownshirts.


12 posted on 11/23/2025 7:49:33 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Eleutheria5

Domestic terrorist.


13 posted on 11/23/2025 7:50:20 AM PST by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Where does Graham eat? I can fart in his general direction.


14 posted on 11/23/2025 7:50:51 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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Traitorcrat Platner: "Frankly, I want people to follow them around and don’t let them have a public dinner without getting yelled at."

Platner is suborning people to commit disorderly conduct. Both are crimes and AG Blondi should be writing up the arrest orders for Platner any day now....

15 posted on 11/23/2025 7:52:11 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Eleutheria5

Maine has RCV for a reason...


16 posted on 11/23/2025 7:53:14 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: Eleutheria5

But they’re not the fascists.


17 posted on 11/23/2025 7:54:57 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (I have no answers. Only questions.)
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To: Eleutheria5

How dare this Dimmocrap call for violence against those who opposed his ludicrous political position? Why on earth would honest people undertake to pay for stinking illegals’ healthcare? I have enough trouble paying for my own.


18 posted on 11/23/2025 7:56:30 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: Eleutheria5

“Sheila Jackson Lee started this back in 2017...”

This type of “pack” behavior has been around long before 2017. This has been the type of action against what they don’t want to happen for over 100 years, at least. Two things have always been consistent with it:

Say anything you want to the media whether it’s the truth or not and then deny you said it,

or

If you can’t attack the topic, attack the messenger.

wy69


19 posted on 11/23/2025 8:11:34 AM PST by whitney69 (")
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To: Eleutheria5

The left continuously telegraphs its inability to debate and tacitly admits that it is resorting to force because that’s all they have. They’re ideologically bankrupt. Trying to talk to them is futile.


20 posted on 11/23/2025 8:15:54 AM PST by Spok (You know people are out of ideas when all they can do is verbally attack people they disagree with.)
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