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Boo1

(737 posts)
1. Also worked on the Fetterman campaign
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 11:38 PM
Tuesday

Should be persona non grata in Democratic circles at this point.

27 year old rich college dropout with a bunch of confirmed lies about his past and a history of threatening women.

LeftInTX

(35,143 posts)
2. He's worked on numerous campaigns including Fetterman, Don Osborns and Mamdani's.
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 12:12 AM
Yesterday

Morris Akiba Katz (born May 18, 1999) is an American political strategist known for working for the campaign for Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City mayoral election. He was deputy media consultant for John Fetterman's 2022 Senate election campaign, and later worked for Dan Osborn's campaign in the 2024 Senate election in Nebraska. He is a close adviser of Mamdani and Graham Platner.[1][2]


He didn't just work on Fetterman's.

SunSeeker

(58,464 posts)
3. It was actually his DSA colleagues Daniel Moraff and Leanne Fan who recruited Platner...without vetting him.
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 02:46 AM
Yesterday
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/these-people-handpicked-graham-platner-he-s-now-democrats-biggest-risk/ar-AA252G8G

Here’s Platner telling Jon Stewart about how they came to his house to talk him into running. Apparently, the extent of their vetting consisted of them looking up that he donated to Bernie Sanders, as Platner notes at the 8:12 minute mark:

LeftInTX

(35,143 posts)
6. Thanks for the time-stamp. Don't have time to watch all of this, but it is very interesting.
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 10:07 AM
Yesterday

I Googled "Morris Katz" and found quite a few articles. The articles also reference Daniel Moraff and Leanne Fan, however Morris Katz is more well known.

See my post below where, I post a NYMag article. (I think it's from a month ago) It's paywalled, but I used archive.ph to share it.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21360218

LeftInTX

(35,143 posts)
5. So I spent more time Googling Morris Katz
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 09:58 AM
Yesterday

There are articles about him in the Atlantic, NYMag and other paywall sites.

Some of these articles are a month old, but who is gonna read them if they are paywalled?

Sure other well-heeled people across the country will read them, but most voters are not well-heeled

Yep, he didn't vet his candidate.

One of Platner/Katz's staffers quit and went to work for a rival campaign after she found some old racist/sexists Reddit posts by Platner. (This was last fall) Katz blew off the Reddit posts as PTSD or something.

There is something in the campaign business called "integrity". This team blew it in this case.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/morris-katz-graham-platner-mamdani.html
Non-paywalled version: https://archive.ph/PJv52

BannonsLiver

(21,190 posts)
7. I found out yesterday that he's so obsessed with talking to boys about puberty he wrote a book about it.
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 10:40 AM
23 hrs ago

And wanted to use actual pictures of his Dong in the illustrations. So that’s fun.

rogue emissary

(3,491 posts)
8. Thank you for this reminder.
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 10:59 AM
23 hrs ago

He and the two progressive consultants that picked Platner. Need to be kicked out of Democrat politics. They hurt the party and the progressive movement.

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