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RandySF

(88,665 posts)
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 04:47 AM Tuesday

ME-SEN: Elissa Slotkin calls on Platner to step down.


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Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) calls on Graham Platner to drop out

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Cha

(321,835 posts)
1. Then why is Planter laying out his conditions for
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 06:07 AM
Tuesday

Withdrawal if he's "denying" then?

Why are all these Dem leaders who endorsed him retracting their endorsements if there isn't overwhelming, credible evidence that is documented?

TY

Tim S

(388 posts)
2. If he is guilty of a crime then arrest him. Otherwise, let the voice of primary voters be honored.
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 07:19 AM
Tuesday

This is manufactured outrage by moneyed-interests running scared of the Senate flipping.

GPV

(73,513 posts)
3. It's not manufactured outrage on the part of this Maine woman. I always
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 08:58 AM
Tuesday

felt he was a poor choice.

Tim S

(388 posts)
4. A woman who didn't think it was worth contacting law enforcement
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 08:33 PM
Tuesday

And she didn’t mention it last fall when Platner’s past was already making news? No, she waits until 7 days before another person can take the place of Platner? Too late to do a fair re-selection for a replacement candidate. Even a month earlier would be more understandable. But 7 days???

Failing to put the popular-in-Maine Platner on the ballot will ensure Maine’s senate seat (and therefore the Senate) remain in Republican hands, thwarting control of Trump’s pick of agency heads. But hey, a woman’s old, unproven accusation was heard, so I guess it’s good for all Americans. Kumbaya.

EdmondDantes_

(2,385 posts)
5. Rape is a manufactured outrage? That's certainy a statement one can make
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 08:45 PM
Tuesday

And then the unnamed conspiracy theory. I've seen it was AIPAC, Israel, establishment Democrats, and now moneyed interests. But not one of them has put forth a theory of why she told multiple people in 2023 two years before he decided to run, or how these evil villains managed to get Platner to do so many other things to display his contempt for women.

Tim S

(388 posts)
6. Allegations are not investigations or convictions. I've helped rape victims in my famiy
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 10:00 PM
Tuesday

so while I haven’t been raped or assaulted myself, I do know the turmoil and permanent scars they cause. But I have also seen false allegation of sexual harassment leveled at several company leaders. There was no evidence, the company’s legal dept found a history of the complaint doing the same thing at two previous employers, yet she still got a settlement check to keep the executives’ names out court (& the news). But everyone in that company knew about the false allegation of sexual harassment and it affected those innocent men’s’ reputation as a whisper campaign that followed them.

Roughly 1 out of 3 women in the US are victims of sexual assault. That doesn’t negate that men can be victims of false allegations. This is why our law is based on Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law — not by a spokesperson voicing their thoughts to a media hungry for a story.

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