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

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. [/quote]

Nice try, tr@ll. I love how the coastal Lap top establishment who are so completely elite and bubble are always trying to attack everyone else’s working bonafides. The irony.

The guy was in the military. He works and earns with his hands, not off his investments. And everyone knows a 20 something getting a tattoo with their buddies in a foreign country doesn’t research the layered history of their tattoo. No one before this oppo research thought it was problematic- including the US military - and when he heard it could be offensive, he covered it. The end. [/quote]

I’m from a working class military family. I spent my late teens, twenties and early thirties living in Franklin which is one town over from Sullivan where Platner lives. Granted some of those years I was actually living in Orono attending university and then in DC attending law school, but my family was in Franklin and that was my place of voter registration.

You don’t know downeast working class Mainers better than I do, which is why I laugh at Platner’s shtick. You also don’t know Maine politics better than me, because in addition to earning a PoliSci degree at the flagship state university, I also worked on multiple political campaigns in Maine and worked on campaign finance reform in Maine with MPA, on whose board I served at one time.

It’s silly that you think everyone who doesn’t like Platner is an elitist or just garbage. I’ve seen a lot of that from Platner supporters on the socials, and in this respect, you folks are much like MAGAs.[/quote]

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