Not all of us can cook the books at a software company during the 90s dot-com bubble, sell it for $4b based on fraud, wipeout $2b in shareholder value in one day while selling our own stock at peak, get fired within six months and see our company resold for just $27M a year later
This race is:
Meta
Chevron
PG&E
Airbnb
MAGA billionaires
vs.
Nurses
Educators
Carpenters
Progressives
Environmental groups
Working people
If we win, corporations lose.
Platner's entire argument for his candidacy is that he has grown as a person, that he has overcome the depths of despair that poured out of him in toxic ways, by focusing on building and being with community. His campaign is an extension of that argument, going from community to community telling this story of growth and redemption, and identifying the villains who are destroying communities both here and overseas.
Every time Republicans point out that he said something toxic previously, they are telling the Maine public nothing new, while also painting themselves as the woke scolds they used to warn about.
They want you to own nothing. They want you to rent your car, your house, your entire life from them, from a billionaire class that owns everything around you.
That's their ideal future, and we can't let them have it.