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McDonald betrayed a confidence.

She is also a lobbyist for conservative oriented industries.

McDonald and a current staffer on Platner's campaign confirmed it when asked by the WSJ.

I can tell you that I don't know what the WSJ knows or who they may be getting info from, e.g. one of the women in the sexting convos, but I'm going to guess the that WSJ and right wing operatives aren't done with their story yet.

After a few news cycles, we will see if it’s a somethingburger, or the nothingburger it appears to be.

By no means do I see the current details dooming his campaign.

we could dump his ass and get somebody worthy of being a US Senator.

Hes it now gpr better or for worse.

The primary hasn't been held yet.

We still vote in this country.

All righty then.

shut up, or bad things might happen to you. Where have we heard that before?

He fights oligarchs.

And unless you live in Maine, you can't have an opinion. Or so I have been told. You can donate money to his campaign, but you can't have an opinion.
Makes total sense.

I'm not really paying much attention to all of this. The voters in Maine will make their own decisions, no doubt.

We know more about Clinton's misbehavior than we do about what else Platner has been up to because the women are being told to STFU! By democrats.

Surely anybody who told women to stfu should be fired. Nonetheless Susan Collins is still much worse. And Platner and Colliins for now are our options there

There are two other names on the ballot.

Platner is the presumptive nominee until that changes

And he's not the only Democrat on the ballot

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Is known in Maine.

Platner is at 76%

Crazier things have happened, but I dont think a person will magically go from low single digits to victory in 8 days.

Mills being on the ballot and rcv in Maine.

A poll in the field a week ago doesn't mean anything today. A lot can happen in 9 days

Unless she unsuspends her campaign RCV wont do a lot of good for anybody else at this point.

Not a spy,

Trump, cabinet members, pols of questionable integrity, and possibly billionaire sponsors of same, want to gag federal workers, who are US citizens with rights, just to spare them being outed for malfeasance.

Free speech, my Aunt Fanny's fanny!

Libel should be dealt with thru the legal system. Squelching speech? Ah, no.

The real reason is he doesn't take AIPAC Epstein billionaires money.

who resigned over Platner’s Reddit posts and Nazi tattoo.

She said herself on her Facebook page that she didn't just blow up her life for the fun of it.

Yep.

His wife got the 7th day? That’s a lot of activity to account for and then you have to assume that one of these multiple sexters might want their 15 minutes. We’ll see if more shoes drop.

He could be texting multiple women on the same day. And if he calls them all "honey" he doesn't have to keep their names straight.

That’s a lot of balls in the air to juggle, so to speak.

Actually, I do feel pretty sorry for his wife of less than three years. This had to hurt.

I have not been impressed by the current Plantar’s campaign

all the angles, more strange things come out.

Might be familiar and attractive for them. When you're an oysterman, they let you do it....

locked and couldn’t reply. Hilarious….

the sexts.

Then that person told the media what his wife said.

Now they are going to call the “someone” a liar?

How does that make Platner’s wife look who brought this all up in the first place?

Hard to believe nda weren’t signed

I believe that he and his wife should be treated with compassion.

I think this has been a manufactured astroturfed campaign run by marketers who have been selling a false narrative for the sake of their own ideologies and ambitions.

I hope Katz makes a statement tomorrow explaining his actions. I think both Bernie and Elizabeth Warren need to address the situation.
The longer this plays out the more damage to the Democratic Party.

If Mills is out there is a vetted , experienced candidate in the race who has received little press. Costello is pro Medicare for All. Maybe he will be satisfactory to the voters in Maine.

Of course everything is up to Platner and nd the people of Maine.

What are you smoking?

Things just don’t add up.

Great post.

that when newly married. And im glad he and his wife got counseling and are reconciled. But it sure as shit doesn’t affect me any more than Clinton’s infidelities or Kennedys or FDR’s. Not on the scale of the destruct the Rs are perpetrating on us daily.

Because it was consensual (as far as we know) between adults.

Trump = pedo = not sex between adults
Trump = rapist = not consensual
Swalwell = harassing texts to women = nonconsensual

Clinton/Lewandowsky - consensual adults
JFK and *waves broadly* - consensual adults
Gary Hart - consensual adults

Platner? Also consensual adults as far as we know. No one has come forward to say they weren't willing participants, or were underage. I never knew DU had so many Puritans until now.

Fairly newly married Platner working on an oyster farm, wife is school teacher. Not wealthy folks... But he is a glib talker with leadership capabilities. Locals nominate him to local positions.

- About three years ago, he decides to run for office in a grassroots bid. Likely invests their limited marital assets to run. Wife believes in him. Others in town believe in him. Folks volunteer to help.

- As he gets national publicity for saying all the right things, gets a big infusion of cash and hires professional campaign workers. You are one of those enthusiastic workers - female.

- One day, he starts sexting you. Disgusting stuff. Why me? You're creeped out.
"WTF!? He's married, he's a candidate and he's doing this? This guys a jerk. I'm out!"

- These women did not want to be sexted. This was not consensual. They bailed because of it. If you've ever been sexually harassed on the job, you know how creepy it is. You cannot remove that from your mind.

- Stories reach the paid staff and they start resigning well-paid jobs. They are willing to give up paid work, either because they're repulsed, or see writing on the wall and expect the campaign to collapse.

- Resignations of paid staff hits national media, rumors are flying, donations dropping. Remaining loyals are now scrambling to come up with a strategy for controlling the bad publicity. Say that it's all lies. Have the wife say she still loves him. It was in the past, when he was a kid of 37.

- He tries to get remaining supporters/staff to sign NDAs. "Shut up about it!"

- You are one of the women who got the texts. You know his wife and like her. She is devastated, and faces financial ruin if his candidacy collapses. Their entire worldly savings are invested. What choices does she have? Try to resuscitate his reputation or face financial ruin.

In short: Many people are in turmoil due to his poor judgment, lack of self-control. The women who got the trashy sexts, people losing their jobs, his wife, donors, volunteers. So many people affected.

Why should we elect this guy to an important public office? He is destroying everyone around him. He's a loose cannon.

I do not know for a fact that it was, and also - you don't know that it wasn't. Sexting isn't illegal or disturbing if all parties are into it.

suggests that it was unwanted. I cannot recall situations where numerous women go public because they are enjoying getting sexted by some horndog.

Please read my post here, and put yourself in the shoes of women who have been through this.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21275118

Because I am and I have.

This sexting was unwanted by his wife. No other women have come forward to report unwanted attention from Platner. The article in the OP mentioned he had an account on a hookup (not dating) site so that raises the likelihood it was consensual. FFS, learn to differentiate between your feelings and the actual known facts.

You posted a story and that’s fine if you are taking a writing course. If you want a discussion based on why should we elect this guy….

Because, as I said, I do t give a shit about his sexting (and there nothing that this was not between adults as much as you prefer to create your scenario) and I definitely care that with Susan Collins in the Senate, my actual real concerns and priorities are greatly diminished.

The pushback on this reminds me of the MAGA total devotion to Dear Leader, no matter how horrible he is.

Platner's behavior is destructive to those around him.

It’s about having a Dem Senate and sexting is simply not anything I give teo shots about. Your stories just story with zero validation.

Not the pundits on DU