necessary indicates that at least some senators are very worried.

I mean, nobody else has ever led a messy, complicated life, correct?

This seems serious.

Hopefully Platner is telling the truth that there is nothing like that going to come out.

Not even in the same ballpark morally much less legally.

Which is why I agree with Warren and don't think issues Platner had in his marriage is disqualifying.

I'm a bit concerned about the use of "credible" here.

Did Warren ask if there would be any credible accusations or did Platner answer that there would be no credible accusations?

Or is the writer adding the word credible in there?

The media often adds the word credible when discussing accusations against politicians. Like they use the word credible when it comes to sexual assault allegations made against Trump.

What they can't rule out is some random person making stuff up but even that might be unlikely to happen as men are actually more likely to be victims of sexual assault than have a false accusation made against them.

I don't know what the "incredible" accusations are.

as well as being a convicted felon, someone who lost a civil suit for sexual assault,
and rumored to be a pedophile....

so I REALLY could not give a SHIT that Platner *may have* sent sexual texts to adult women
while he was married.... this is penny-ante garbage even if it is true!

I'm DONE with the double-standard which Republicans, the media, and some Democrats
try to enforce that DEMOCRATS have to be PERFECT,
while all the ACTUAL SEX CRIMES committed by Republicans are IGNORED!

Fuck this noise. It's a matter for the voters of Maine to consider,
NOT for US Senators or anyone else who doesn't have a vote in Maine!

And frankly, I don't think most of the voters will give a tinker's damn about it,
with all of the other much more important issues facing us!


Also looks a little too "summer of 2024" to me!
Some Democratic US Senators meddled in THAT Presidential Election,
and where did it get us--- or some of them ???




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...about these sorts of issues (among much more trivial ones as well), we wouldn't have so many more important issues facing us to begin with...

This is the primary -- this is when these sorts of issues need to be addressed. But once the primary is over, EVERYONE on the left needs to coalesce around ALL our Democratic candidates running against Republicans.

who also attended the meeting, followed up and said there is a big difference between marital issues and allegations of sexual assault..."

That's good to know!

I wonder how long it will take to contact the six known sexters for their sides of the story. Hm.

say that? I've heard no allegations of "sexual assault."

If there is anything disqualifying that he hasn’t mentioned, if he hasn’t mentioned it to them by now, he wasn’t going to volunteer it to anyone. It was a pointless question to ask, because he wasn’t going to answer “yes” whether that was true or not.

It’s the fact that they felt obligated to pose that question publicly that is the news, not his answer. If he was going to answer “yes,” his withdrawal from the race would already be fading from the headlines, something that seems more and more worth reading between right about now.

Holding a meeting like that doesn’t settle the question. It raises it louder than before. Platner should be happy that there are only five days left until the primary. I’m not sure that the rest of Maine should feel so reassured, but that’s for the voters there to decide.