Ron Filipkowski's take on the Platner situation

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senseandsensibility (26,131 posts)

Ron Filipkowski's take on the Platner situation

Maybe the consultants can do a better job vetting the candidates they recruit. Especially ones who came out of nowhere. Otherwise it looks like you either knowingly scammed us for a grift, you're willfully negligent or grossly incompetent. The consultant class sucks. A lot.

I think I agree with his assessment and would place the blame there rather than on the voters of Maine.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221354916

You are so full of shit. Vote blue no matter who remember?

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The revelations of what Platner was and is were weekly news since or before April. The national Dem Party knew almost everything, including at least one credible rape accusation, before Maine’s primary. Platner was not the only Dem candidate, the former governor of Maine was also running. The Dem Party just wanted to to support the DSA’s candidate.

Somewhat more to the point, Maine voters knew. The credible rape accusation was reported in the NYT several days before Primary day. Whatever the timing of individual voters’ votes, every voter knew at least some of the problems that should have sunk his candidacy.