u/Icy-Acanthaceae-6816

New allegations about Platner are pretty bad. It just seems like it's one thing after another with this jarhead.

Let's just be honest about Platner. He's a gross person, a dumbass, and a possible rapist. He worked for Blackwater and most probably knew what the Deaths Head tattoo meant when he got it. Leftists knew all of this (minus the rape allegations) and still fervently supported him anyway.

At this point I doubt he's going have much presence in senate committees which means less representation and appropriations for Maine. All he gives us is a D vote. Which, dont get me wrong, is still worth it to hopefully deny trump any supreme court picks.

But he is just a bad candidate and shame on the other Maine dems for not jumping in last year. At this point the only way we can replace him is if he drops out, but that would probably lock out a ton of fund raising dollars for whoever would replace him. That being said, can we not have a repeat of biden and drag our feet replacing a shitty candidate.

My dream candidate was always Heather Cox-Richardson. I would crawl over broken glass to vote for her. Heather, please, your country needs you.

Troy Jackson just eclipsed Shah in the betting markets for governor nominee. This is very disappointing. Shah is genuinely a brilliant man who actually has good policies. Maine would benefit from a progressive pro-business governor, especially since our states GDP has stagnanted because of lack of Canadian tourism.

Troy Jackson is.... like.... actually an idiot and a larper. He's been able to leech of bernie sanders' popularity in new england.

Jackson's plan to bring down energy costs is to implement price controls and regulate CMP and Versant so they have to spend a greater percent of their profits on building new transmission lines. I assure you, this is a horrible policy. First off, power utilities arent just raising rates for no reason cause something something greedy billionaires. Power utilities run on thin margins as it is. Regulating them to have to spend their profits on building new transmissions will both eat away at their overhead budgets and remove incentives to expand transmission and only focus on lower financial risk projects. CMP is already a headache to work at (from what folks I know in the industry say) and further regulating it with strict price controls is going to make CMP less attractive to work with for consultants and probably convince some of their older experienced engineers to retire or get a new job.

Jackson is a slopulist and we really dont need that for the governor. I say this as someone whose enthusiastic to vote for platner btw.