After Landslide Primary Win, Graham Platner Vows to Defeat 'Spineless and Corrupt' Susan Collins

[sop]

"Graham Platner, a veteran and oyster farmer vowing to champion the working class against what he’s called the 'spineless and corrupt' political establishment, officially became the Democratic Party’s nominee in the critical race to unseat five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins, winning more than 70% of the vote in Tuesday’s closely watched primary."

“ 'I love every single one of you, everyone who has shown up at a town hall, who has knocked on a door, who cast their vote—not for me, but for a vision of a life in Maine that you can afford, a life of dignity, and a government that actually serves its people,' Platner said in his victory speech. 'The truth is, Susan Collins doesn’t serve us, she serves Donald Trump. She serves the Epstein class. She serves her corporate donors and the corrupt political system that has rigged the economy against us. She does not serve us, and so we will defeat Susan Collins.' "
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“ 'Susan Collins may have started her career decades ago in Washington with good intentions, but she has become just as spineless and corrupt as the establishment she now serves,' said Platner. 'If you are an independent voice, why do you vote with Donald Trump 95% of the time? If you’re so bipartisan, why are you the deciding vote to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court? The deciding vote to defund our healthcare and our hospitals? Why did you rubber stamp the greatest redistribution of wealth from the working class from the working class to the ruling class in the history of our nation?' "

Article at link:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/graham-platner-wins-primary

[orangecrush]

1. ...

[sop]

5. Susan went from a negative net worth to being a multi-millionairess after tying the knot.

[Ritabert]

8. Sounds about right.

[Akakoji]

9. Please don't reference that site

They immediately sell your information to list brokers - and yes, they grab your ISP - and their posters are mainly self possessed haters of Democrats. They helped greatly in the anti-Platner campaign. I’m certain only to drive up traffic.

[JBTaurus83]

3. So I wonder if the rule about bashing Dems

Will be enforced here? Let’s move forward and get rid of the Nazi collaborator, Susan Collins.

[Bluetus]

13. Hasn't been so far.

But Platner is not a "real Dem", you know. It is OK to bash him and to repeat/amplify the claims made by long-time Republican operatives. I mean, they don't even try to hide what they are doing.

[JBTaurus83]

15. I've been thinking about this quite a bit

I didn’t like the candidate choices in this race, but I’m fully behind making sure he defeats Nazi Collins. If we want to be a majority party and win 60 plus senate seats in a country that is already rigged against us as progressives, we need people like a Platner who become engaged in politics. If we continue with purity tests and gatekeeping, we aren’t going to attract people to register and vote. One of our major soft spots is not being successful in turning out occasional or non voting members of the public.

[BeyondGeography]

4. However you feel about the messenger he has exactly the right message

And he expresses it credibly and very well. Which is why he won this primary in a landslide.

[JBTaurus83]

6. In the age of the internet

It’s going to get pretty hard to find pure unicorns to run for office. I think the public is aware of this, and although it’s unfair; why some of the stuff that should stick to Dump doesn’t.

[Bluetus]

14. And in comparing with Fetterman

I never found Fetterman nearly as articulate and consistent in the positions he took before he went Manchin on us.

I know I am not the person I was 20 years ago and certainly not 40 years ago. It is plausible to me that Platner has gained a lot of wisdom over the years. If he hasn't, then he is working really hard to fool people.

He certainly has AIPAC convinced that he is who he says he is, and they are shitting bricks.

[JBTaurus83]

17. If we want to defeat the MAGA movement

We will need to get people out of the cult. I’m assuming a lot of them have made bad decisions and posts in the past, but, if they have seen the light, let’s take them in and end the nightmare.

[Bluetus]

19. I'm not sure which cult you are referring to. He was in the army.

I am not aware of any other brainwashing institution he has been involved with.

The fact is that his populism, just like Mamdani's, is extremely threatening to the fascist establishment. And yes, this fascism has been coming on for decades -- long before Trump came down the escalator. Trump has prioritized the corruption element of fascism, but he didn't invent the thing.

These people will spend any amount of money to try to shut down the things Platner is talking about, just as they tried with Mamdani. I ask everyone who has been bashing Platner (he is a Democrat, and this site has rules against bashing Democrats), if I had a budget of $10,000,000 to investigate the complete private lives of those bashing Platner, what would I turn up? Would I find things these folks wouldn't want to face? I know somebody could find all sorts of things to attack me, and they wouldn't have to work that hard.

These are the politics of destruction. We expect that from Republicans, but shame on anybody here joining in that smear campaign.

[Lovie777]

7. GQPs love to vote against their own interest..............

and constantly blame the Democrats when things go wrong.

Hopefully this time, Democrats will win, even against the gaslighting lying machine of the GQP.

The rate the GQP are going, the economy looks to get much worse and they may install a draft because it looks like our country maybe in a major conflict.

Secondly, it looks like Brazil will not make the same mistake the US did. Lula for the win!

[bmichaelh]

10. Supercut ad

Someone should do a supercut ad of all the times Collins enabled Trump.

When it did not go the way she publicly anticipated and all her response was "I am concerned"

[Karasu]

12. It would be incredibly hard to keep that ad under like, a minute.

[Initech]

11. Do it! Let's make Fetterman irrelevant!

[QueerDuck]

16. If we're lucky.

[Emile]

18. No luck about it. He is going to kick

her ass. Can't wait for the debate between those two.