Originally published at: Dam Breaks As Elected Dems Withdraw Support, Urge Platner to Drop Out of Maine Senate Race
Immediately after Politico published a rape allegation against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner Monday, elected Democrats began to withdraw their support. “I’ve been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line,” tweeted Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA). “These allegations are very serious and credible. Graham Platner should drop out from the…
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If some intrepid reporter can track this down as a hit job, they could win the Pulitzer.
Otherwise, the party is at fault here for not thoroughly vetting Platner as a candidate. They fell in love with a fairy tale and now the real story is out.
If this isn’t the real story, then, well….. see my first sentence in this post.
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Fuck.
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Was he convicted? Is there a police record?
Does she plan to press charges?
Surely 5 years is within the statute of limitations.
Collins wins again.
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This is gross victim-blaming-and-shaming. Don’t do that.
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Surely there’s someone in Maine who (1) is prepared, willing, and energized to do what it takes to save constitutional democracy and (2) isn’t a piece of shit. It needn’t be Abraham Lincoln, but it’s always baffling when the best an entire state can do is bupkis.
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I’m unbelievably disappointed to see way too many TPM posters (in other threads) suggesting that, even if these allegations turn out to be true, Dems could legitimately support a rapist.
That “They do it, so why can’t we?!”
That it’s just a hit job by the press or AIPAC or Schumer.
That – as an article of faith – the woman MUST be lying.
(Just one irony being that some posters who constantly demand “purity tests” on Dem candidates – at least when it comes to other issues – are now denouncing “purity tests” when it comes to Platner – as if a little rape would be OK if it got us a Dem majority in the Senate.)
I don’t know if Polling USA is a joke, but FWIW:
This guy is not indispensable; nobody is.
If he’s a rapist – and that’s still an “if,” although even TPM reporting is looking very, very bad for him (“Details are completely sickening”) – then we cannot blindly support him just because he’s got a D after his name.
We’re better than that.
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She seems to have very solid evidence. She has the kinds of things you look for when assessing sexual assault. I believe her. There MUST be a progressive woman In all of Maine who could step in.
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How many convictions has Harvey Weinstein had overturned? Nobody should be naive about victims’ reluctance to trust the criminal justice system or come forward by this point.
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Well … now’s the time to get it out of the way.
Too bad he’s not being vetted for Sec’y of War. I hear it’s okay for that position…
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Shouldn’t we be sure there is a victim … before shaming for victim shaming?
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Or … That – as an article of faith – the woman MUST NOT be lying.
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There is a victim. Her name is Jenny Racicot, and she has corroborating evidence that well predates Platner’s campaign for Senate.
And it’s not as if Platner’s long record of misogyny, threats of violence, and domestic abuse didn’t make it abundantly clear he was capable of rape.
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Another article of faith to explore - is the opposition willing to destroy someone who might have a chance to win just so they won’t lose?
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I expect it is both 1) True and 2) A hit job.
Someone’s been keeping this in their back pocket in order to hand Collins the victory she so richly does not deserve. And, as an added bonus, Platner now becomes the poster boy for DSA in every GOP ad from here on out. .
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Not trying to blame, but the timing is convenient. If the allegations are indeed true dude should step right out.
Black out drunk.
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Platner is not a member of the DSA, and the DSA has not endorsed him.
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Crap. Collins gets six more years of being concerned.
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Sickening, really.
Graham Platner’s entire life history and his own statements up until the day he declared his candidacy has been telling everyone that this is exactly who he is.
The typical reaction of a person who’s been conned is not to recognize the con or to reject the con artist. It is to make excuses so that they don’t have to suffer the psychic injury of admitting that they got conned.
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