Sam and crew go over Graham Platner’s win and his interview with Mika Brzezinski Scarborough on Morning Joe. Amoung the jokes about her interview they go over his acceptance speech. I am personally satisfied he has answered all the questions. I love his line “… if you give me the chance I will be a senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator”. I am a progressive and a believer in DSA policies. Graham Platner is not the perfect person who is flawless and unlike many his flaws are out in the open, not hidden behind a facade of fake religious politeness. He is a populist. I am not looking for religious leaders in our lawmakers, I am not expecting someone who walked blamelessly through life, that they way only one person did and his name was Jesus. I am looking for someone whose policies help the lower incomes and the public at large, not the privileged few. I am looking for a congress and White House filled with people who do not think elected office is their golden ticket to personal wealth and authority over others. Real people screw up and those that ask and work for a second chance should be given a chance to show they deserve it. In my opinion Platner has and does shown he deserves his forgiveness. Plus people look at Graham’s past are not looking at Collin’s past or even Mika who started dating Joe when he was still married. To me a lot of these people going on about Platner’s past seem to hold him to a different standard than they themselves are held or republican canidates are held. Hugs.
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Jen Psacki interviewed him yesterday on her MS Now show (still type MSNBC and have to backspace …) and he was really good.
She asked him how he would respond to several Dem Senators who have criticized him , and he said “I am running for US Senator from the State of Maine…it is the people of Maine who will elect me, and they are who I am accountable to.“
Wish I could find the interview online. It was good. He had a (probably well rehearsed by now) bit about (paraphrased) “Yes I’ve been through some shit and been an asshole, but I’ve been working on myself and live every day trying to be a little better, and a little more kind by the end of the day than I was when I woke up.“
It’s telling that the loudest voices against him are either Republicans wagging their fingers at Democrats, or purity ponies yelling about how can we elect someone who was a sexist pig.
Well, he was the one who stood up and ran. There were three dems on the primary ballot: Graham, Janet Mills, who entered late, (at Schumer’s insistence) ran a half-hearted campaign and quickly suspended her campaign when she realized he had an insurmountable lead, and another guy who got like 8% of the vote.
Meanwhile there are half a dozen people running as Dems for Governor.
The people of Maine made their choice pretty clear. My boss, (who works remotely), lives in Maine and she likes the guy, and I trust her BS detector.
Will he turn out to be another Manchin, Sinema or Fetterman? My gut says probably not: Manchin never said he was anything but what he was, Sinema was a flake who turned out to like the attention and $$$ of being a swing vote in the senate (and we should’ve seen it coming, but the choice was her or the odious Rethug Martha McSally who I had the distinct displeasure of being represented by in Congress.) and Fetterman? Who knows, he was either the deepest of deep cover Republicans or the stroke and subsequent deep depression broke shit in his brain.
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Seriously. Platner’s plans for when he’s in office, and Collins’s record. If we want to get Collins out, we have to stick to real politicking: Platner’s plans for when he’s in office, Collins’s record. This crap of tearing down anyone who’s leery of Platner is only going to send voters running to Collins, or running anywhere but the voting booths.
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