Graham Platner is a piece of work.
You know, yesterday when I wrote about Janet Mills dropping out, I included a Xweet from someone talking about the oppo research on this clown being a possible goldmine.
It hasn’t taken 24 hours for the gruesome deluge to start about what a miserable fabulist this hairy beast is.
One thing that caught my eye, being a veteran and having a disabled veteran for a spouse (31 years of Marine Corps wear and tear, but no war wounds, thank God), was Platner’s service claims. His DD-214 has debunked the man’s sea stories about being in for ten years, but I hadn’t realized he was rated 100% disabled by the VA for PTSD. He claims physical issues as well, but hasn’t discussed those in any detail. I imagine there is going to be more scrutiny on the nature of his claims. There are already letters being written to papers in the state urging that Platner be quizzed to ‘clarify‘ how his mental challenges ‘may affect his capacity for stressful employment.’
Pretty nebulous. That would describe a lot of people.
…In a prior interview with NEWS CENTER Maine, Platner said he receives a $4,800 monthly payment from the VA for his 100% disability rating that stems from injuries he sustained in combat — “I’ve got a couple herniated discs. My shoulder’s a wreck. My knees bother me,” he said last month.
Platner also has invisible wounds — post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and hearing loss. The VA 100% disability rating does not mean he cannot work.
“It is a fundamental misunderstanding around how the VA rating system works. Your rating is the percentage of access to VA benefits that you get,” Platner said. “There are a lot of disabled combat or just disabled vets at 100% who still work.”
There’s also the payment he says he gets from the VA – the amount seems to be exaggerated by almost 20%. There are limits on every category for spouses and children. And while Platner is married, he has no children. By the VA chart, he should be collecting just a smidge over four grand a month, but claims to get close to five thousand. The two of us aren’t sure where the extra would come from. He has no military retirement from either his Marine Corps or Guard service.
The Washington Free Beacon did an interesting dive into another aspect of Platner’s time in the military and the benefits associated with that which make up part of Platner’s backwoods, everyman schtick. He claims that if it weren’t for the VA, he wouldn’t have been able to buy his house.
A VA mortgage is one of those things damn near every veteran can relate to. Most who have owned homes have taken advantage of the program, and those who haven’t are certainly aware of it. So this would help cement Platner’s street cred among fellow vets, I guess. One more thing that makes him just like the average Mainer.
Only Collin Anderson and Peter Hasson at the Free Beacon found out that wasn’t the case at all. Platner’s nothing like 99.9% of the rest of us, because he never used a VA mortgage. Never got a dime from the VA.
Platner’s blowing smoke up everyone’s butt again.
His rich Daddy wrote a big, fat check for the price of the whole house.
Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, who is casting himself on the campaign trail as a “working class Mainer,” received a $200,000 loan from his father, a prominent local attorney, to finance his home, property records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. Platner has since said he couldn’t have made the purchase without the “support of the VA,” though he did not take advantage of the government-backed mortgages available to service members, according to the records.
Platner’s mortgage record, dated June 30, 2017, shows that he secured “payment of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000)” from his father, Bronson Platner, to finance the property. It likely covered the entire purchase price of the four-bedroom house near the water in the Maine town of Sullivan, which sits at the gateway to Acadia National Park. The home’s tax assessed value in 2017 was $164,000, records show.
The mortgage record refers to a “promissory note,” a written legal agreement in which a borrower agrees to repay a lender within a certain timeframe, between Platner and his father. It also includes an attached document describing the house—where Platner still resides—and listing the sellers, who transferred the home to Platner through a deed that was recorded on the same day, documents show. A county assessor told the Free Beacon that the property referenced on that deed matches Platner’s address. In a brief interview, the house’s sellers also confirmed that Platner’s father funded the mortgage.
This is a completely different story from the Platner regular guy campaign spiel.
…The records contradict Platner’s description of his home purchase. In September, Platner said, “I bought my house in 2017. If I hadn’t bought then, if I hadn’t had the support of the VA, my wife and I would now be priced out of the town I grew up in, like the millions of Americans being exiled from their towns and cities.”
Platner’s mortgage record, however, does not list a Veterans Affairs loan, or a loan from any bank. Private lenders, like Platner’s father, are not subject to the same disclosure requirements as federally regulated banks, meaning the agreement between Platner and his father is not public and the terms of the loan—including whether he is paying any interest at all—are unknown. If he had received a VA loan, the terms would have been included in the mortgage record. There are no other mortgage records listing Platner as a party in Hancock County, where Platner resides, a Free Beacon review found.
It’s so early in this dogfight yet, who knows what else, if anything, is going to bubble up out of the slime that Platner breaststrokes around in while spewing his socialist garbage.
And I meant that ‘slime’ sincerely.
He and the Maine Secretary of State, Shanna Bellows (you might remember her kicking Trump off Maine’s Republican primary ballot), who is running for governor, were at a gathering of progressives yesterday in a Maine town besieged by violence.
The list of those who were with them and the event sponsors was a roster of progressive evil financed by the very billionaires these frauds rail against at rallies.
Shooting Rocks Lewiston as Platner, Bellows Plan Little Mogadishu Rally with Dark Money Allies
Hours before two of Maine’s leading Democratic candidates were prepared to speak with supporters on Lisbon St. in downtown Lewiston, a Bartlett St. shooting sent shockwaves through the community leading to a lockdown at the public school system.
It was a shooting in a city where gun violence — the majority of it committed by youths who are never charged or named — has become common place.
…Only steps away from the area Lewiston police locked down on Thursday, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a far left gubernatorial candidate, were poised to meet at the headquarters of the Maine People’s Alliance, a 501(c)4 political advocacy group funded by George Soros, Pierre Omidyar, and the network of millionaires and billionaires connected to Arabella Advisors.
The Maine People’s Alliance is also the fiscal sponsor of the Community Organizing Alliance, a migrant-run political group created and controlled by Gateway Community Services, a Somali MaineCare agency that has drawn multiple state and federal investigations for credible allegations of welfare fraud.
Both Platner and Bellows have made overt efforts to court both the Community Organizing Alliance, which shares a Canal St. office with Gateway Community Services, and the general Somali community, which is concentrated in and around the Bartlett St. area.
Gateway Community Service is under federal and state investigation.
Something look vaguely familiar?
#Maine #MEpolitics
Maine’s Deqa Dhalac – “We must prioritize Somalia”She was executive director at Gateway Community Services – the Democrat nonprofit that has been under audits & investigations for stealing tax payer money.
Remember the Somalian Portland board members that… pic.twitter.com/W5AXIridbg
— TheUnquirer (@unquirer) December 24, 2025
This is who Platner is courting.
I’m pretty sure there’s more to come on the ‘oysterman.’
With friends like that and such good yarns to tell, there’s no way there can’t be.
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