Susan Collins' Democratic Opponent Isn't About To Clam Up
In the State of Maine, an oyster farmer named Graham Platner is taking on the personification of wishy-washy, Sen Susan Collins. His introductory video is pretty good and he's got some real good hits in there:
What I love most about Maine are the people. I have never met people who are more hard-scrabble, even in a place that requires you to work like two or three different jobs. We have watched this state become essentially unlivable for working-class people, and it makes me deeply angry.
My name is Graham Plattner, and I'm running for U.S. Senate in Maine to defeat Susan Collins, a decade of military service going overseas, farming oysters to feed my community, diving to lend a hand to other fishermen, trying to start a family.
But everywhere I've gone, it seems like the fabric of what holds us together is being ripped apart by billionaires and corrupt politicians, profiting off of destroying our environment, driving our families into poverty, and crushing the middle class. I did four infantry tours in the Marine Corps and the Army. I'm not afraid to name an enemy, and the enemy is the oligarchy. It's the billionaires who pay for it and the politicians who sell us out. And yeah, that means politicians like Susan Collins.