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.

Platner maybe shouldn't have decided to run if he's got an entire graveyard in his closet.

A few reddit posts, a politician that cheated, and what else?

There are actually a lot of people like Platner that are around his age and almost no one could run if they had a few embarrassing online posts.

Also Mainers don't care.

One of whom confirms that Platner referred to the tattoo as his totenkopf as earlier unrelated reporting had said.

And being a big fan of an antisemetic YouTube host Nate Cornacchia.

but after Janet Mills dropped out I decided to take his explanation at face value.

I referenced the reddit posts and I have actually seen similar or worse at DU especially when a Democrat is being accused.

And I think anyone saying rape victims bear responsibility, DUer or not, should be called out including when a Democrat is accused. I routinely correct people who still insist that Franken was only accused by one woman of an inappropriate photo. Not minimizing or blaming victims should be the bare minimum standard.

And when there's reporting he was yanking women around and blocking them in a room.

Just because his sexting isn't in the realm of sexual assault, doesn't mean the rest of his issues which keep expanding, aren't incredibly problematic if not 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."

You would win your bet.

Soem trickled out today.

There is zero chance we've heard te last, or worst, of what's coming from him.

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.

If they are getting nervous now, what does that say about their judgment in racing to support him in the beginning? What are the other candidates they supported supposed to think?

In their shoes, at this late stage, I would have just slept in the bed I made, and let the chips fall where they may. Of course, if there is more to this than has been made public, then they may have had more of a solid reason for the move than has yet been made public. They will really look foolish if there is something awful that they know about, and the Republicans so far do not. Waiting for some ugly revelation that puts Collins back on top should not be an option. For the sake of saving the seat, I hope not, but we peons are not likely to find out before the primary, one way or the other.

If people end up saying "told you so," I'm sure it will be of very little comfort to them when the cost of being right is that we fail to gain control of the Senate. Fingers crossed that this doesn't get worse.

Is anyone willing to wager that a sexual assault scandal comes out sometime around October? Roger Stone-esque

More shoes

on the one hand he’s a lying misogynist drunk, on the other hand he has no relevant experience and seems to totally lack any discipline

— Vituperative Erb (@vituperativeerb.bsky.social) 2026-06-04T20:39:06.159Z