Julia Conley
Aug 19, 2025Launching a US Senate run to unseat five-term Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, oyster farmer Graham Platner on Tuesday made clear in his inaugural ad that beating the “fake” moderate also means taking on the power-hungry billionaire class that has helped keep her in power all these years.
The enemy that the vast majority of Americans and Mainers have in common, said Platner, “is the oligarchy.”
I know what we’re all thinking.
A repeat of Fetterman. But we have to take a chance on people like this. Or we’re gonna spin our wheels in the mud forever. Never gonna make any ground on the bastards wrecking everything.
Indeed. Even if he ends up a traitor it’s still better to take the chance than maintaining the fucked up status quo.
Fetterman would have been fine if it weren’t for the stroke and resulting brain damage.