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mountaineer · « **on:** **Today** at 08:57:54 am »

How a Rich Kid Politician Was Spun as a Working Class 'Oysterman'
Daniel Greenfield

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There is the Graham Platner that the media wants you to see: Maine oysterman, veteran and gun owner, a working class type who could easily be MAGA, but is running as a Democrat.

Then there’s the real Graham Platner, son of a prominent local attorney, grandson of a major modernist architect, whose business was funded by a nonprofit grant meant for black people.

And by his mother who owns multiple businesses.

While he’s been billed as an outsider candidate with no interest in professional politics, he’s actually the activist son of a council candidate and the husband of a town selectwoman, as well as a local official whom the media had regularly turned to for quotes since at least 2009. ...

Platner is not an outsider. He’s a ‘progressive’ leftist activist from a family of them.

His Senate campaign tweeted a high school yearbook picture of him holding up a sign reading “Free Palestine” above the headline “Most likely to start a revolution”. Unlikely behavior for a working class family, but quite in keeping with the scion of a wealthy and progressive family. ...

https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/09/how-rich-kid-politician-was-spun-as.html

mountaineer · « **Reply #1 on:** **Today** at 08:58:41 am »

CNN did a story (subscription only) quoting Platner as admitting he's a communist.

https://twitter.com/NathanBrandWA/status/1978783251805216810

Wingnut · « **Reply #2 on:** **Today** at 09:53:20 am »

There is no pearl in that oyster, man.

mountaineer · « **Reply #3 on:** **Today** at 03:13:16 pm »

Platner is involved with Socialist Rifle Association, which isn't a gun rights organization.

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Socialist Rifle Association likes to portray themselves as a left wing gun rights/education organization, but they're simply not, they're a violent group connected to attacks including the Alvarado shooting (Benjamin Song was a member)
Also they don't advocate gun rights, SRA chapters have directly stated their goal is disarming "those who stand in our way"
Pictured, Maine SRA (the group Graham Platner was involved with) at a training meet