Anyone with the signatures can vie to replace Platner. That’s what the Maine Democrat State Party is saying. “Candidates now have the ability to submit their declaration of intent and begin engaging Maine Democrats in earnest by earning their support and collecting signatures.”
Commie Ro Khanna, whom I wrote about Saturday, wants Troy Jackson, whom I wrote about Friday. Troy hits women with things (a bottle in the most well-known incident), but it is allegedly a well-known secret in Maine Politics that the once Head of the State Senate is “like that.” As I noted on Friday, “Progressive Victory [expressed] concern about the behavior of ‘many prominent Maine Democrats toward women more broadly.'”
It’s not just Maine Democrats, but we covered that already. This is about something else that’s not so secret. Democrats are bad at being fair, open, and transparent. It’s almost as if the very fiber of the people attracted to the party power politics is predisposed to deceit, obstruction, and top-down mandates. That’s snarkasm. The party agenda stands on all of that. You can’t create a command and control anything without the secret Marxist sauce. Someone is in charge, and everyone else does what they want, or else?
Democrats haven’t had a fair and open presidential election process since Hillary lost to Trump, and her elevation to the nomination is likely no less suspect. She was a criminal, Biden was a criminal, and Harris was a criminal-adjacent idiot climber who ran out of ladder (despite spending $1.5 billion-ish on “extensions”).
We’ve seen, or at least heard about, our fair share of state-level political fair and open processes. The New Hampshire State Democrat Party is a notorious fixer (not that the NHGOP doesn’t try to dissuade primaries). And you have to remember that these are private organizations with one job. Get people with the correct letter after their name elected to public office.
Maine’s Democrat party is no different, so I’m mildly amused at the almost “doth protest too muchness” of the announcement.
“As you all know, we have been absolutely committed to transparency. So even though it is incredibly late at night, I am coming to you live on the ground from the Maine Dems headquarters,” Murphy-Anderson said, announcing that their process for U.S. Senate candidates “is now live.”
They don’t have a lot of time, and if Platner doesn’t get to pick, and they’ve made it clear his suddenly obvious, oh-my-go-how-did-we-miss-this character flaws disqualify him, the announced process will put whoever it is at a significant disadvantage. Pissed off, Platner doesn’t have to transfer any of his war chest and might not, so the new “nominee” may have to raise a lot of money quickly in what has become a party-wide dearth of resources. Platner could give it to the DSA, which is what douchebags like Ro Khanna, Sanders, and Cortez would love, but how does that help Maine Democrats?
I think this is all cover for tagging someone in who has a name, national recognition, and can attract the sort of money you need for a US Senate race (and the signatures and inside baseball) to get “nominated.”
I know, I keep saying the whole process was a game to allow Platner to implode so Mills could get “nominated.” She had an uphill climb with Platner and the surging socialist base in her party. As radical as Janet is, she’s not enough of a lefty to win a primary in her own state. But if the plan was the plan I claimed, stepping aside to let nature do the work for her, she could come back and walk into the general.
It sounds good on paper, but Mills is not young, and if you want to plant a forever Senator, you need someone with fewer rings on their trunk.
We’ll know soon enough.
