ME-SEN: Graham Platner raised money with health care lobbyists days before taking pledge not to 27

[RandySF]

Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) signed a pledge refusing to accept large donations from corporate health care executives, lobbyists and political groups — five days after he fundraised with lobbyists in the health care sector, the Bangor Daily News reports.


https://politicalwire.com/2026/03/30/graham-platner-took-money-from-health-care-lobbyists/

[JBTaurus83]

1. He's giving me major

Fetterman/ Manchin / Sinema vibes. I feel Maine is missing a major opportunity, I don’t think either candidate is that great to go up against Collins.

[leftstreet]

2. Interesting

Platner’s campaign noted that fundraising events held this month and in December were not industry events, saying attendees from a range of sectors came on their own behalf and not to lobby Platner. His message of Medicare for All and breaking up monopolies has remained consistent throughout his run, the campaign noted.

Erin Oberson, a nurse at the Bangor hospital who is active in the union, said in a statement that the pledge is forward-looking, only covering donations after candidates sign on. She also said it’s focused “on large hospital corporations and Big Pharma, specifically the PACs and executives who actively fight to protect our broken, profit-driven health care system.”

So a former Congressional "aide" showed up at a Platner coffee fundraiser before he had signed the pledge?

[betsuni]

3. K&R

[Prairie Gates]

4. He's going to be the nominee

I wonder if the people who have spent so much time and spilled so many pixels trashing him will be able to control themselves.

[RandySF]

6. I'll write the seat off.

[RandomNumbers]

7. I'll ignore him, until he shows how he will serve.

Assuming he wins.

I don't live in Maine, after all.

But if I did, I would prefer a known quantity run-of-the-mill Dem (even centrist) over someone with his baggage.

But I don't. And maybe the voters will overlook his bad history and choose him in the primary and in the general. THEN we will see who he really is.

[mcar]

5. So, he's not pure as the Progressive snow, is he?

What a surprise!!11