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2026 Elections: To the Midterms and Beyond!

Just got a text from platners campaign manager telling me the dem national committee has taken over the replacement selection and it will be behind closed doors . they wanted a message from me to the committee and one to graham.
 
Just got a text from platners campaign manager telling me the dem national committee has taken over the replacement selection and it will be behind closed doors . they wanted a message from me to the committee and one to graham.

If you rush $100 to Platner’s campaign can you stop it from happening?
 
Just got a text from platners campaign manager telling me the dem national committee has taken over the replacement selection and it will be behind closed doors . they wanted a message from me to the committee and one to graham.
“While the Platner campaign remains focused on distracting from the job of defeating Susan Collins in November with false accusations against us, the Maine Democratic Party remains hyper focused on developing a representative, transparent and inclusive process to select a new nominee when he chooses to withdraw from the race. While we may be frustrated with Graham Platner’s continued efforts to manipulate this process, we are so thankful for his supporters and all of their efforts to defeat Susan Collins – they are a vital part of our Party and deserve to participate in an open process to select Platner’s replacement.” - Devon Murphy-Anderson, Executive Director of the MDP

There will be an emergency meeting of the MDP via zoom at 4:30.
 
“While the Platner campaign remains focused on distracting from the job of defeating Susan Collins in November with false accusations against us, the Maine Democratic Party remains hyper focused on developing a representative, transparent and inclusive process to select a new nominee when he chooses to withdraw from the race. While we may be frustrated with Graham Platner’s continued efforts to manipulate this process, we are so thankful for his supporters and all of their efforts to defeat Susan Collins – they are a vital part of our Party and deserve to participate in an open process to select Platner’s replacement.” - Devon Murphy-Anderson, Executive Director of the MDP

There will be an emergency meeting of the MDP via zoom at 4:30.
Chellie Pingree?
 
Chellie Pingree?
She has a safe seat in Congress and already lost to Susie in 2002. (But) The Dems might consider she has a base of strength to run from, has the name recognition to challenge and we live in a Coke can district so whoever the Dems name to replace Chellie on the ballot will win CD1 comfortably.
 
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That is about the closest we would have to the constituents' will, to be honest.

Platner himself is a snake, but the people did vote for his agenda.
We live in America. "Fuck the people" is our corporatized major political parties' joint motto and raison d'etre.

The DNC kingmakers are absolutely gleeful for the chance to stick some bland shill in there for Susan "After Lots of Thought, I Will Have the Chicken" Collins to slay. And then they will blame it on the left for not showing up.
 
Platner is expected to release a pre-recorded message this evening. No hint yet whether he drops out or decides to stay in the race.

The Platner volunteers want Troy Jackson. Party insiders didn't get the hint during the primary and want Janet Mills to reactivate her campaign.

According to a snap poll, Jackson is the only named Democrat who would defeat Collins.
 
The Platner volunteers want Troy Jackson. Party insiders didn't get the hint during the primary and want Janet Mills to reactivate her campaign.

Jackson is a former president of the Maine state senate. That should appeal to plenty of insiders. Mills is obviously cancer.
 
Jackson is a former president of the Maine state senate. That should appeal to plenty of insiders. Mills is obviously cancer.
Notsomuch. He is one of those evil socialists who believes in raising wages, protecting worker rights and taxing the wealthy. Insiders like Mills because she has been happy to sell out the poor (my mom lost her MaineCare despite being 82 with a lousy heart and broken back) to protect billionaires and corporations. The death blow to her senate campaign was her veto of a proposed moratorium on data centers.
 
If Maine is anything like every other state, there are plenty of party insiders who are democratic socialists. Just like we out in the world, they are fighting a rearguard action against the corporate swine. If they have a credible candidate who knows the ropes and has a network of IOUs, now's the time to call them in.

Parties are just as heterogeneous as constituencies. There are very good people who are getting slaughtered by the donor class and are looking for the chance to bite the hand that feeds the party while eviscerating any Left policies. Now's the time.

The Maine Dem party needs a revolution but if effective that will come from within from the core who both has unimpeachable values but also knows what the fuck they are doing. The transition the DNC failed to do under Obama.
 
The emergency meeting is still going on, but a source leaked that once Platner drops out MDP will call a convention to pick a nominee. There would be 600 people at this convention. Details are not known yet.

Caveat that none of this has been confirmed.
 
The most unhinged video I’ve ever seen, literally 10x crazier than anything Trump has come up with
The child rapist war criminal just said the Islamic Republic of Japan fired on one of our aircraft carriers.

Shall we discuss the vital role of air power in the American Revolution?

Sit this one out.
 
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Troy Jackson is in.

If the DNC hadn't run interference for Janet Mills last year he might have gotten into this race a year ago and would already be our nominee.

I don't know if I'll be a delegate to the convention or not. They have not released details. If it is the same people who served as delegates earlier this year I won't be among them as I was unable to attend caucus or the convention. If they open it up and put the convention some place other than Bangor I'll probably be a delegate.
 
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