cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/62988948
A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.
The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.
Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.
“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” she said. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”
He ran on a populist platform. just like trump and fetterman did. There were countless bright red flags (some with windmills on them…) but people ignored it because he was going to give them universal healthcare and DRAIN THE SWAMP.
And, like basically every other populist politician, odds are he was going to completely ignore his campaign promises and just enrich himself in office. Just like trump and fetterman did.
And yeah, there is this narrative that he is the underdog and a disruptor candidate. He is a rich white guy in Maine who was backed by establishment Democrats and center-left podcast bros like Pod Save America. Sanders went hard on him but… Bernie has a history of some REALLY stupid endorsements and he is pretty establishment Democrat at this point if you actually look beyond 2016.
I don’t know if I think he is a full on oligarch plant (Well, I do know and I don’t). I think he is just every other sociopathic rich guy who wants to cash in on having a good smile and not caring about fucking over his constituents. He just got caught with his hand in the rape jar one too many times… BEFORE getting into office.