Graham Platner’s ex-political director expressed her growing concern about the embattled Maine Democrat in a Washington Post op-ed Monday, arguing that her former boss “‘shouldn’t be a US senator.”
“I quit the campaign in October, disturbed by what I learned about the candidate and concerned about his potential impact on the Democratic Party’s prospects in my home state,” Genevieve McDonald wrote. “As Tuesday’s primary arrives, I want to make clear what transpired since August and why my concerns have only grown.”
McDonald argued that Platner “exhibits a pattern of dishonest behavior that is impossible to ignore.”
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“Despite being exposed by a series of scandals beginning last October, he kept assuring voters and the Democratic Party that there were no more skeletons in his closet,” she continued. “Then more emerged — the latest, in recent days, have involved former girlfriends’ serious accusations of physical mistreatment.”
McDonald described herself as “one of the Platner campaign’s first gaslighting casualties,” claiming the candidate and his campaign dismissed her concerns about his Nazi tattoo and electability.
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“I was willing to believe his explanations, I wanted to believe, until his flaws as a candidate became impossible to ignore,” she wrote.
McDonald said she “realized the campaign had not been honest” when reports on Platner’s disturbing Reddit post history started to surface.
She claims the Platner campaign offered her “$15,000 to sign a nondisclosure agreement,” after her resignation, which she refused to do so, and that “over the past eight months, women have come to me with their own disturbing stories about Platner.”
“Enough is enough,” McDonald wrote.
