Platner floats jailing billionaires in fiery pre-primary speech pushing far-left agenda

[mystery-ak]

Just what we need, another commie

Platner floats jailing billionaires in fiery pre-primary speech pushing far-left agenda
GOP critics noted Platner's endorsers like Sens Sanders and Warren receive donations from billionaires like George Soros
By Alec Schemmel Fox News
Published June 8, 2026 8:23pm EDT

Scandal-plagued Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner used a fiery pre-primary address to pitch universal health care, wealth taxes, a Green New Deal and other far-left agenda items, like floating an idea that billionaires should be jailed for looking at political ads "the wrong way" in remarks about campaign finance reform.

The comment about jailing billionaires earned the candidate backlash from his Republican critics, who pointed out some of Platner's biggest endorsers are funded by billionaires, highlighted the "Marxist dystopian" nature of the remarks, and joked that Platner must have some sort of affinity for locking people up against their will, referring to recent allegations from an ex-girlfriend.

"We need to get money out of politics. We need to get rid of Citizens United. And, if I had my way, elections would last two months, they will be publicly funded and if a billionaire looked at a TV ad the wrong way, we'd put 'em in jail," Platner told a crowd of constituents Sunday night in Maine, earning applause. The comments came as Platner was laying out his far-left agenda and railing against conservatives, including calling President Donald Trump "dumb."

"That's one way to thank some of his own supporters for their generosity!" quipped veteran Republican strategist Colin Reed, who pointed to Platner's prominent endorsers, like Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who received several contributions last month from billionaires like George Soros, Pat Stryker, Jon Stryker and Jennifer Pritzker, according to campaign finance watchdog OpenSecrets.

"Why worry about slowly slipping into a Marxist dystopia? With Graham Platner, you can sprint toward it!" Jason Savage, Executive Director of the Maine GOP, said in response to Platner's stump speech remarks about jailing billionaires.

"Dude is big on locking people in rooms against their will, apparently," joked CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings, an apparent reference to recent reporting on Platner’s past romantic relationships, including one ex-girlfriend’s allegation that he once twisted her arm behind her back, pushed her into a bedroom and held the door shut from the other side. Platner has denied the allegations.

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[Smokin Joe]

Geez. This guy makes Collins look like Ben Franklin.

[Wingnut]

This leftist whack job is trying to out left the left. 

[Smokin Joe]

This leftist whack job is trying to out left the left.

Dude needs to Google Robespierre...
(so do his donors)
Be careful what you wish for.

[BobfromWB]

Prevailing sentiment in Maine seems to be, "Vote Blue, no matter who."

[andy58-in-nh]

Prevailing sentiment in Maine seems to be, "Vote Blue, no matter who."

If you are from northern New England (like me) and listen to audio interviews of Platner supporters in Portland, the first thing you'll recognize is that none of them are from Maine.

They all sound like they just flew in from California, Seattle, Colorado or New Jersey. 

[Texas Yellow Rose]

Geez. This guy makes Collins look like Ben Franklin.

Nooo kidding! He really does.

[Free Vulcan]

Being most billionaires today are leftists, should be interesting.

[Fishrrman]

Smokin' Joe quips:
"This guy makes Collins look like Ben Franklin..."

Before I scrolled down to read the comments, I figured I'd post that platner makes bernie the commie look almost moderate by comparison...

A little further down, Vulcan muses:
"Being most billionaires today are leftists, should be interesting."

It's not just "today".
Once more, I'll post an excerpt from Whittaker Chambers' book "Witness":
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After that confrontation, I returned to my office at Time and went through the motions of working. Everyone was kind. No one pressed me. One day Henry Luce called me up and asked me to come to supper.

There were three of us. The second guest was a nimble, witty European whom I shall call Smetana. At supper, most of the talk was between Luce and Smetana. I was a rather silent guest. I was too fresh from the shadows; bright conversation hurt my mind. In fact, I had left behind the world of Time and those who lived within it. It was only the friendliest of fictions that I still belonged to it.

No one mentioned Communism or the Hiss Case until we sat over our coffee in the living room. Mrs. Philip Jessup had just used her personal good offices to try to get me off Time. Luce was baffled by the implacable clamor of the most enlightened people against me. “By any Marxian pattern of how classes behave,” he said, “the upper class should be for you and the lower classes should be against you. But it is the upper class that is most violent against you. How do you explain that?”

“You don’t understand the class structure of American society,” said Smetana, “or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.”
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