did you hear about the Dem Senate candidate from Maine with a Nazi tattoo ?
Many in the party say it needs a wider range of candidates to run. Does that include people with Nazi tattoos?
How ‘Big Tent’ Are Democrats Willing to Go? - The Atlantic
Meet Graham Platner .
While some doubt his explanation, others in the party are defending him, arguing that Democrats need more “normal,” working-class candidates if they hope to regain control in 2026.
Democrats on the Graham Platner controversy - WHYY
“normal,” working-class candidates" lol
After the controversy went public . He had a tattoo designer change it . But the design was one prominent for the Waffen SS.....a death skull
Questions about the tattoo come after the recent discovery of Platner’s now-deleted online statements that included dismissing military sexual assaults, questioning Black patrons’ gratuity habits and criticizing police officers and rural Americans.
Maine Senate candidate Platner says tattoo recognized as Nazi symbol has been covered | PBS News
He blames the comments on having PTSD after serving in the Marines. I know Marines and they would never say such comments or post such comments.
He reinvented himself as a common man . He went to elite boarding schools
Hotchkiss Named Top Private High School and Boarding High School in America by Niche | Hotchkiss News
Yes he served time in the military then went to George Washington University
- Most Liberal Colleges in America
#4 of 932
and his dad was a lawyer .
According to the NY Slimes ;his grandfather Warren Platner, was a world-famous architect known for creating
"a furniture collection that has proved to be an enduring icon of 1960's Modernism" and for designing "several prominent interiors in New York, including offices for the Ford Foundation building and the original Windows on the World restaurant,"
Warren Platner, Designer, Is Dead at 86 - The New York Times
Designer Warren Platner | Knoll
Now he walks around in plaid shirts ;sleeves rolled up ;boasting of shucking oysters for a living.
Platner, unlike Fetterman, appears much less likely to let down liberal and progressive Democrats because he is, in every sense, a true believer.
but but but ........ he's a "normal working class American"