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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]#Other98 percent

Graham Platner is a four-tour Marine combat veteran and oysterman from a Maine town of 1,200 people and he's beating Susan Collins by seven points.

Sooo mainstream media has decided the real story isn't her record. It's whether he's really working-class enough. The New York Times just devoted 2,500 words to the question.

Let's run that side-by-side.

Platner wakes up before dawn and works the water. Most of his income is tax-free disability he earned over four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He lives in a small blue-shingled house in his hometown of Sullivan.

Susan Collins and her lobbyist husband Thomas Daffron are sitting on an estimated net worth between $4 million and $40 million. Their portfolio is stocked with Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ConocoPhillips, and Johnson & Johnson, all companies she helps regulate from her Senate perch.

One of these people is the working-class one. The press appears unsure.

They want you to know Platner's dad helped him with a mortgage. His mom buys his oysters. His grandfather designed nice furniture. He went to a prep school as a teenager.

Meanwhile this gets treated as routine. Susan Collins took $2 million from private equity king Steve Schwarzman on June 27. The very next day she cast the decisive vote to advance Trump's bill projected to kick at least 10 million Americans off their health insurance.

It wasn't her first time. In 2017, Collins floated an amendment to close the carried interest loophole, dropped it the next day, then voted yes on Trump's tax bill.

Schwarzman rewarded her with another $2 million that cycle.

[b]When a billionaire writes a senator a check, the press calls that politics. When a father helps his combat-veteran son buy a $205,000 house, the press calls that a story.[/b]

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