I know this is gonna be controversial with the .worlders, but this dude, is a bad dude.
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https://www.grahamforsenate.com/about :
After graduating high school in 2003, during the height of the Iraq War, Graham snuck his birth certificate out of his father’s office to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
(the bio on his campaign site goes on...)
After completing his infantry training, Graham was assigned to Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion 8th Marines and deployed to Al-Anbar Province, Iraq in January of 2005 where the battalion served primarily in the area east of Fallujah. In 2006, he was deployed to Ramadi, Iraq and served as machinegun section leader at the Government Center. He was deployed again in 2007.
After his third deployment, Graham enrolled at The George Washington University using the GI Bill. Graham quickly realized that his time serving in uniform was not over. So in 2009, he joined the Maryland Army National Guard. He was deployed to Afghanistan the following year where he served as a rifle team leader.
He returned from Afghanistan and went back to school at The George Washington University in 2011. Like many veterans, Graham struggled with undiagnosed PTSD and physical challenges that come from heavy infantry combat. Graham eventually withdrew from George Washington University and moved back home to Maine where he used the resources from the Department of Veterans Affairs to get the help he needed.
After four tours overseas, Graham was deeply disillusioned with America’s failed foreign policy and endless wars and decided to focus on serving his local community in Maine.
In 2018, Graham started working on his friend’s small oyster farm in his hometown of Sullivan. He quickly felt deeply connected with the sea and the community. He eventually took over the oyster farm and built it into a business that produces high quality oysters. Graham also began a diving and mooring service to help out around the bay, and serves the town of Sullivan as Harbormaster and Planning Board Chair.
for some reason his website bio omits his time as a “security contractor” in 2018, although he did mention it in this interview:
After his return to DC, he was in and out of college. He picked up bartending, and never ended up finishing school. In 2016, he moved back to Maine, where he began gaining support from the Veterans Affairs department, getting physical and mental therapy. He felt a renewed call to service, and in 2018, got a job as a security contractor for the State Department in Afghanistan.
meanwhile, https://www.grahamforsenate.com/platform :
Everything we went through in Iraq can be laid at the feet of those in Washington
And? We have to take a risk on people like this or we’ll never get anywhere. Love it or hate it these are the kind of people who will bring in new voters.
Dry academics don’t excite. They don’t make people ask questions. They dont bring in new voters. They have their place. But rural Maine? This is the kind of guy we need.
Is the risk of another Fetterman there? Of course. It always will be. But if we don’t take that risk we’ve already lost. We’ll never make any ground and we’ll reroute all those potential voters into the welcoming arms of reactionaries.
Graham Platner doesn’t regret murdering brown people for the empire.
He regrets how inefficiently the US murdered brown people, wasting many precious taxpayer dollars while doing it.
He is campaigning on how much more efficiently he couid murder brown people for the empire.
If you think a politician cares about you any more than brown people they want to murder I’ve got very bad news for you.
I don’t like it. It would be weird if anyone did. But this is The United States of America.
Universal Healthcare is controversial in this insane shithole.
We play the hand we’re dealt. Or we sit to the side and get played by someone else.
If you think it’s okay to throw other under the bus for your healthcare then the same will happen to you. Trump is hard at work making your wishes a reality.
Ok. Keep losing. (And I mean this equally to both BlueMAGA liberals and purity “leftists”)
I honestly don’t care. I gave up on electoralism a decade ago.
That must be why you’re so passionately advocating for him.
Regional voices work. They speak to the common issues of their region. Of their people.
Do you know more than I do about what issues fuckin oyster farmers care about? Because I know precisely fuckall about it. Can you speak to those people in terms they understand?
They farm Oysters at Blackwater? That’s crazy.
