Who ****ing cares, what he wants to do is so much more important than **** posting when he was an angry guy with PTSD. DD
The voters just might care... a lot. I care, because taking that Maine senate seat is very doable. Why nominate this guy to run for a very important position when he arrives with a built-in albatross tight around his neck? Surely there are others in the state qualified to run who don't carry that stupid decision around with them.
the platform that he’s running on Where I Stand Maine is becoming unaffordable for thousands and thousands of us. Why? Because we have a government by, of, and for billionaires, who are building a "billionaire economy" that none of us can afford. I'm not just running against Susan Collins: I'm running against the billionaire class that owns her and all of Washington. We should not settle for politicians who speak in vague generalities about policy. Here is where I stand. Most importantly, I want to hear from you, as this platform grows and develops. Please reach out to info@grahamforsenate.com with any thoughts or additions you might have, or to schedule a further conversation. Overview America has entered a new Gilded Age. We have a government of, by, and for billionaires: a direct consequence of disastrous court decisions, capped by Citizens United, that have allowed billionaires to buy elections. As a result, they have built a “billionaire economy”. One that creates explosive growth for a tiny, privileged few, for a handful of billionaires and multi-national corporations; and inflation, stagnation, and decline for the rest of us. In 1990 there were 66 billionaires in America. Today there are over 900. When you look around, do you see a community that is over 10 times wealthier than in 1990? And so, while my platform spans many issues, I view most of my job as a US Senator as to do two things: one, to ban billionaires buying elections; two, to dismantle the “billionaire economy”, in favor of an economy that works for the American worker, for small business, for the vast majority of Americans. I will be a Senator for all those who can’t buy Senators. - Ban billionaires buying elections - Rebuild our failing healthcare system - Support Small Business: Break Up the Monopolies - Stop the mass deportation machine; pass real immigration reform - Defend our air, our water, our land and our climate - Decisive action on the housing crisis - Defend Medicare and Medicaid - Protect Social Security: before it goes bankrupt - End billionaire tax dodging - Uphold tribal sovereignty and self-determination - Strengthen our working waterfront - Support unions, and bring good union jobs to Maine - Defend and support public schools - Keep government out of our private lives; defend the right to choose - Protect Maine’s economy: raise the federal minimum wage - Equality for ALL - The War in Gaza - End the failed War on Drugs - Take on waste and corruption at the Pentagon; rebuild American shipbuilding - No more pointless wars - Address the childcare crisis - Support Americans with disabilities - Pay servicemen a fair wage; no more servicemen on food stamps - Defend the VA and support our veterans - Defend the Post Office and establish postal banking - Pass term limits, and hold politicians to their term limits pledges https://www.grahamforsenate.com/platform
gift article Pennsylvania Democrats know the truth about demonizing Trump Gov. Josh Shapiro and the Democratic state party leader are focused on winning back lost voters. https://wapo.st/49yKnd8 excerpt: CANONSBURG, Pa. — Eugene DePasquale didn’t mince words. The new state chair for Democrats in Pennsylvania knows the only way his party can win voters it lost over the past 10 years is to focus on how it would do things better. And it’s equally important for state Democrats to stop obsessing about President Donald Trump. Including demonizing him. “Trump has given us Democrats an opening on all the things he has not delivered on, but we have got to do our part of actually not only relying on his failure but putting together a positive agenda to get the working-class voters back,” DePasquale said last month to the members of the Washington County Democratic Committee gathered for their annual fall banquet at the Hilton Garden Inn Southpointe. DePasquale, 54, is known for his gregarious personality, a trait that has earned him Republican voters over more than 10 years of holding state office. He pressed hands, asking each committee person what is going on in their communities and what the local issues are, before giving the keynote speech. DePasquale is all preacher, counselor and optimist — encouraging to members of a party weary of losing elections, weary of party leaders’ failure to broaden their coalition, and weary of being the “resistance” and talking about nothing but Trump. To DePasquale, it’s simple: “They want us to be for something, to offer solutions with a message that broadens our coalition, not shrinks it,” he said in our interview after the event. He said that observation comes from experience in talking to Democrats who are exhausted with everything being about Trump. more at the link
The folks who gives a f are the billionaires who lead the little guy MAGA's to vote agains their own interest.
People won't w Vote for Newscum or Harry. Two awful candidates. Demz need to look in the mirror about the unlikable and unelectable candidates
Wow, "Albatross" !!! Deckard, you are missing the forest for the trees. I guess they should just run a nice perennially careful and liberal centrist lawyer against Collins. You know, the types that have been losing with their wealthy consultant carefully crafted images and talking points. Ever wonder why Trump and many of the MAGA politicians with all their incredible flaws can win?
Maine Gov. Janet Mills said Thursday she supports keeping the filibuster in place, breaking with most members of the Senate Democratic Caucus she hopes to join as she launches a campaign to oust GOP Sen. Susan Collins, herself a staunch defender of the Senate’s 60-vote requirement. “I would certainly want to retain the filibuster,” Mills said, according to the Bangor Daily News. Mills made the comments while talking to reporters after accepting the endorsement of Dan Kleban, the co-founder of Maine Beer Co. who had been running for the Democratic nomination before Mills’ entrance into the race. If Mills’ support for the filibuster holds and she makes it into office, her support for the 60-vote threshold could limit Democratic ambitions the same way former Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema did during President Joe Biden’s administration. Without eliminating the filibuster, Democrats would be limited to using the reconciliation process to deal with budgetary matters on a simple majority and could not pass any meaningful government reform or abortion rights legislation. And we’re handwringing over a chest tattoo and Reddit posts? C’mon people
He nails it. Dems should be the party of the working class, period. Culture wars have successfully subverted the GOP into the anti-liberal party.
@Reeko Newsom is the ONLY guy that gets it. People dont want in party b****ing and conspiracies. Attack MAGA
way too many feckless and weak Democrats as well as people way too concerned with purity tests…way too many idiotic Dems doing “both sides” bullsh*t and thinking they’re making a statement by sitting on the couch and not voting, then having the nerve to complain and b*tch when the republican wins and destroys the country so many Dem politicians that won’t take a stand on anything before running it by some dorky DC consultant or focus group, and then the stand they do take after doing so is often weak and pathetic majority of Democrats would not have attempted to redistrict California in response to what TX is doing…they would have just sat on their ass and maybe sent out some tweets or make an appearance on CNN while republicans manufacture 5 more House seats Gavin Newsom has the fight, Idk if he has the policy that will get people excited tho…the candidate who has both will have the opportunity to take over the Democratic party
One of Platner's selling points is that he will everywhere in the state and talk to anyone. He recently went to a small town of 2100 and had 700+ show up at a local gym for a rally. Platner appears to be connecting with the Maine voters, with his progressive, populist message. Platner may very well win the D primary, warts and all. Let the Maine voters decide. Collins may very well win the general election, warts and all. Let the Maine voters decide. Pearl Clutching R Concern Trolls will have a field day, if there is a Platner Collins general election. The Rs will be all mad that Platner had a Nazi tatoo but completely unconcerned that Collins rubber stamped all of Trump Nazi leaning appointments. So be it. Let the Maine voters decide.
He certainly has the California and that always goes over well in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Georgia.
Unfortunately for Gavin, he is the Cali Governor and that doesn't fly well in the fly over states, I think he is great at debate but he`s too slick, this is a good forum for him to get his message out but I think the Dem will have to come from the East Coast or Midwest
Because "liberals" like you spend most of their time attacking the only party that can run against the GOP with a chance to win. That's if good leadership can be found. Now? We don't have it, and those like you certainly can't provide it.
