Maine

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Anonymous wrote:Anybody willing to gift this article?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jFA.mxEa.2KOrHVLWCRvn&smid=url-share

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Anonymous wrote:Anybody willing to gift this article?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jFA.mxEa.2KOrHVLWCRvn&smid=url-share

Thank you!!

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Anonymous wrote:Forget about the disability payment fiasco. I still haven’t heard anyone defend him posing as a working class oyster man when he went to a $70,000/year elite private high school and his parents are a lawyer and business owner. He also is on record saying that he regrets going into the military in retrospect because he did so because he read too much Hemingway. Who says stuff like that?

This guy is possibly the biggest fraud in politics.

He went to Hotchkiss for a very short time. Most of his time was at HS in Bangor.

A private high school in Bangor. Not that it matters to me either way, but let's at least be honest here.

A private school in freakin Bangor is closer to working class than many public schools in the DC region. Things are relative.

After attending an elite $70,000 prep school, which working class kids do not attend.

The Times has had enough as well. I don’t know how many working class people you know, but working class isn’t usually described as growing up with a Dartmouth educated lawyer as a father and a restaurateur mother who sent you to a $70,000 year prep school and then paid for your family’s fertility treatments in Norway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

Mr. Platner is an oysterman, a combat veteran and a former harbor master from tiny Sullivan. He is also the son of a Dartmouth College-educated lawyer, the grandson of a famed Connecticut architect and a graduate of a private high school.

His parents have offered him privileges and connections and have helped him financially. Mr. Platner has described his mother, who owns an upscale restaurant, as his oyster farm’s biggest customer.

On large expenses, including his home, he has received assistance from his father. His father also paid for his and his wife’s travel, lodging and fertility treatments in Norway this year, according to a person with knowledge of the financial arrangement at the time.

Heard him on the The Interview podcast. Was not impressed. It's too bad that Maine/Gov. Mills didn't get it together in time to build the campaign she needed for this primary. This guy could be another Fetterman or I guess he might be ok.

My takeaway is that he was kind of a failure to launch type who should be commended for his military service but I'm not sure he's really got what it takes or what America needs to be an effective Senator. But at this point if he will just vote with the Democrats and take away Collins GOP vote that may be good enough.

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I don't think Collins will lose. She sounds dumb as a box of rocks, but is too dug in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think Collins will lose. She sounds dumb as a box of rocks, but is too dug in.

She will lose. Both sides hate her.

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Anonymous wrote:Forget about the disability payment fiasco. I still haven’t heard anyone defend him posing as a working class oyster man when he went to a $70,000/year elite private high school and his parents are a lawyer and business owner. He also is on record saying that he regrets going into the military in retrospect because he did so because he read too much Hemingway. Who says stuff like that?

This guy is possibly the biggest fraud in politics.

He went to Hotchkiss for a very short time. Most of his time was at HS in Bangor.

A private high school in Bangor. Not that it matters to me either way, but let's at least be honest here.

A private school in freakin Bangor is closer to working class than many public schools in the DC region. Things are relative.

After attending an elite $70,000 prep school, which working class kids do not attend.

The Times has had enough as well. I don’t know how many working class people you know, but working class isn’t usually described as growing up with a Dartmouth educated lawyer as a father and a restaurateur mother who sent you to a $70,000 year prep school and then paid for your family’s fertility treatments in Norway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

Mr. Platner is an oysterman, a combat veteran and a former harbor master from tiny Sullivan. He is also the son of a Dartmouth College-educated lawyer, the grandson of a famed Connecticut architect and a graduate of a private high school.

His parents have offered him privileges and connections and have helped him financially. Mr. Platner has described his mother, who owns an upscale restaurant, as his oyster farm’s biggest customer.

On large expenses, including his home, he has received assistance from his father. His father also paid for his and his wife’s travel, lodging and fertility treatments in Norway this year, according to a person with knowledge of the financial arrangement at the time.

Man the NYTimes is really on the pro Israel payroll.

What’s your counter argument to Platner posing a working class man of the people when his Daddy is a lawyer who pays for his down payments, elite private high school, and Norwegian fertility treatments though?

You’re deflecting.

NP. It’s certainly no worse than Bush II positioning himself as a Texas rancher when he was a Yale educated New Englander. And on the upside, he doesn’t like war having fought in them before. I don’t have issue with him and like his positions.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think Collins will lose. She sounds dumb as a box of rocks, but is too dug in.

She will lose. Both sides hate her.

That’s ridiculous. Latest polls show a very tight race; the most recent shows Collins up by 11 points after Mills dropped out.

JD Vance had hundreds show up to see him speak in Bangor last week, dozens turned away because the venue was full.

A couple dozen protesters showed up across the street.

The Platner supporters posting here are not comprehending politics in Maine if they truly think he’s going to easily trounce her in November.

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I watched part of the NYT interview. He has very good political instincts. I would not count him out. Everyone hates Sue Collins ever since her Kavanaugh vote. She deserves to lose. I think he has a very good chance of unseating her.

And he explained he attended Hotchkiss on a large scholarship for part of one semester, then went to a different private school, also on a scholarship.

His upbringing was middle class, he says, but he works in a blue collar job. He didn't go to college, was in the military. He survives on a very small income because he has military health care and a pension.

The GOP is desperate to discredit him because he's going to win and we're going to flip the Senate.

[Anonymous]

The GOP is dumping tens of millions into this Maine race. The Dems are also dumping millions into the race. Platner has a very good chance of winning. Maine is a poor state, and he connects with Mainiacs.

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Anonymous wrote:I watched part of the NYT interview. He has very good political instincts. I would not count him out. Everyone hates Sue Collins ever since her Kavanaugh vote. She deserves to lose. I think he has a very good chance of unseating her.

And he explained he attended Hotchkiss on a large scholarship for part of one semester, then went to a different private school, also on a scholarship.

His upbringing was middle class, he says, but he works in a blue collar job. He didn't go to college, was in the military. He survives on a very small income because he has military health care and a pension.

The GOP is desperate to discredit him because he's going to win and we're going to flip the Senate.

Is he now saying he didn’t go to college? He attended GW for years, but quit one year short of graduating. He’s a very well read self proclaimed military history buff which is why his claims of ignorance about the Totenkopf he sported on his chest for nearly two decades just doesn’t fly.

And $60k/yr tax free is not a small income in downeast Maine, that’s preposterous.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think Collins will lose. She sounds dumb as a box of rocks, but is too dug in.

She will lose. Both sides hate her.

Speak for yourself. I like her quite a bit, as do many others.
DP

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Platner is the dude who called the local police chief “trash” for refusing to kneel during a BLM protest. I mean, seriously?

He also said “black people don’t tip.”

Democrats will get what they deserve with this ahole.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think Collins will lose. She sounds dumb as a box of rocks, but is too dug in.

She will lose. Both sides hate her.

Speak for yourself. I like her quite a bit, as do many others.
DP

Do you live & vote in Maine? I do. I live in a red county. Most Rs will hold their nose & vote for her. Platner has broad support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The GOP is dumping tens of millions into this Maine race. The Dems are also dumping millions into the race. Platner has a very good chance of winning. Maine is a poor state, and he connects with Mainiacs.

Yes. They are terrified of him and know she is super vulnerable.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think Collins will lose. She sounds dumb as a box of rocks, but is too dug in.

She will lose. Both sides hate her.

That’s ridiculous. Latest polls show a very tight race; the most recent shows Collins up by 11 points after Mills dropped out.

JD Vance had hundreds show up to see him speak in Bangor last week, dozens turned away because the venue was full.

A couple dozen protesters showed up across the street.

The Platner supporters posting here are not comprehending politics in Maine if they truly think he’s going to easily trounce her in November.

What poll is that?