A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.
The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.
Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.
“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” she said. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”
I love living in America where our choices always seem to be this fucking guy or this fucking guy plus corruption and corporate boot licking… It’s so fucking wonderful that out of 400 million fucking people, these are the people we end up with…
The “good” news is that this is not a uniquely American problem. You just aren’t paying attention to other countries’ elections.
That said? The key, like in almost all things, is to work with your local party. Folk deeply underestimate the value of having someone in the room (when the cameras are off) saying “Can we maybe not explicitly endorse genocide?” or “People want their tax dollars to go to something that matters”. The DSA have finally started to realize that and it is doing wonders. Find the locals who actually would be good candidates and push them in the primaries. And… it gets more than a bit sketchy, but there are also efforts to “import” candidates to some districts with the goal of running them after they “put down roots” for a year or three.
The problem is that people don’t want to do that. MAYBE they’ll send a text but they expect The Party to provide exactly what they want with no prodding. And, to be fair, for a lot of the most basic of things… the Democrats really shouldn’t need to be told. But that leads to people like platner. Borderline sociopaths who just want power who will come out of nowhere, flash some cash, say words they know will get the influencers to talk about them, and win.
Like… it isn’t THAT WKUK skit, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtJuiTAR29E kinda sums things up.