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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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

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

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

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

[quote]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.[/quote]
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QUOTE: After attending an elite $70,000 prep school, which working class kids do not attend.

You all are just trolls trying to discredit someone you clearly know nothing about. If you lived in Maine, if you cared to listen to Platner, you wouldn't say this.

Most of Maine is extremely econominally DEPRESSED. Platner's mother was highly focused on education and wanted him out of there so she found a prep school that gave them a ton of financial aid. He is very open about this. He immediately didn't fit in at Hotchkiss. He tells a story about how in an assembly early on, the students were asked to raise their hands if they had held a part-time job and he was [i]the only one[/i] who raised his hand. He felt completely out of place. The kid didn't last a year there.

I believe he was a paying day student at the HS in Bangor - I am not sure if there was aid. But I do know that the student body at Bapst is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from that at Hotchkiss. I used to live in Maine and I have worked in New England independent schools and attended one. Over 60% of the students at Bapst are [b]publicly funded students[/b]. They are indeed mostly working class kids.[/quote]

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