U.S. Senate race controversy in Maine grows

 

Democrat Party in Maine now silencing the grassroots movement that they built.

This letter of resignation from their party mobilization director indicates the move to insert a corporate candidate in the now open U.S. Senate candidate position due to Graham Platner dropping out of the race due to charges of rape.

The party intends to hold a 600-person meeting to pick the new candidate. They appear to be pushing out the powerful anti-war, anti-corporate base that Platner's campaign successfully built during the past year.

Ben Chin, Graham Platner’s campaign manager writes:

"We’ve said from the very beginning that this campaign was never about Graham but about a movement of working people united to take back power... the Maine Democratic Party said that our movement will 'have no role in determining our next Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, nor in determining what this process looks like.'

Instead, under their watch and direction, they allowed the DC-based Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to send staffers to plan a potential nominating process behind closed doors. Both the state and national parties cut our team, our volunteers, and our vast networks of supporters out of the conversation completely.

We firmly believe that the supporters and volunteers who built this movement deserve to have a real role in any nomination process. If the Maine Democratic Party hopes to harness our movement, and avoid disillusioning the hundreds of thousands of supporters who came into the fray because of our movement’s policies, it must consult the feedback and proposals of the people who built and sustained this."