Graham Platner's Platform

[Emile]

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Ban billionaires buying elections

Rebuild our failing healthcare system

Support Small Business – Break Up the Monopolies

Stop the mass deportation machine; pass real immigration reform

Defend our air, our water, our land and our climate

Decisive action on the housing crisis

Defend Medicare and Medicaid

Protect Social Security – before it goes bankrupt

End Billionaire Welfare, Pass a Cost-of-Living Tax Cut

Uphold tribal sovereignty and self-determination

Defend democracy and the Constitution

Strengthen our working waterfront

Support unions, and bring good union jobs to Maine

Defend and support public schools

Keep government out of our private lives; defend the right to choose

Protect Maine’s economy: raise the federal minimum wage

Equality for ALL

The War in Gaza

End the failed War on Drugs

Take on waste and corruption at the Pentagon; rebuild American shipbuilding

No more pointless wars

Address the childcare crisis

Support Americans with disabilities

Pay servicemen a fair wage; no more servicemen on food stamps

Defend the VA and support our veterans

Defend the Post Office and establish postal banking

Pass term limits – and hold politicians to their term limits pledges

https://www.grahamforsenate.com/platform

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. You forgot one

Kill the filibuster and expand the court.

That’s the one item that makes all the others possible.

[sheshe2]

2. Well, we need to become the majority as well before anything happens.

Both in the House and Senate.

Oh, we need the Presidency as well.

[Emile]

3. That's why we need to support Platner

instead of attacking him.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Did he put that in his platform? Or is that your addition?

It looks like his plan is a democracy wish list.

But does it actually mention any political policy changes that directly involve congressional procedures?

[Fiendish Thingy]

23. IIRC, He has publicly stated both positions

Not writing it into his platform is probably smart strategically.

Besides, killing the filibuster and expanding the court are a means to reach the desired ends in his platform.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Emile, I love that you shared this. But it really needs a link to the source of the information. ❤️

[Tasmanian Devil]

6. Source link

Not sure if this is where the OP copied from, but it seems to match:

https://www.grahamforsenate.com/platform

And .. each item in the list has a "+" button to expand for more details.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. TY ❤️

[Emile]

8. Sorry, I added the link to the OP.

Thanks

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Love you, Emile. TY. ❤️

[rogue emissary]

10. Oppose assault weapons ban

[Emile]

11. Janet Mills has opposed an assault weapons ban too.

[rogue emissary]

12. She suspended her campaign in April.

Why did you bring her up?

[Emile]

13. Because the people on du who keep throwing mud at Platner

are everyday reminding us her name is still on the (primary) ballot.

[rogue emissary]

14. How is this throwing mud?

This is his position and the OP is about his policy positions.

[Emile]

15. So why is it upsetting you to find out Mills

also supports against having assault weapons ban?

[rogue emissary]

16. It doesn't upset me. Especially when I found David Costello support the ban

and he's still in the race.

[Emile]

17. There you go, you got your one issue

and candidate, if that's all you need.

[rogue emissary]

18. Costello has a lot more policy positions I like

*Enact the Freedom to Vote Act
mandating automatic voter registration, early voting, and no-excuse voting by mail;

*banning unreasonable voter purges, deceptive politicking, and partisan gerrymandering; and

*Enact social media rules and requirements that oblige social media platforms to adhere to strict privacy and anti-violence incitement rules.

*Abolish the Electoral College and directly elect presidents by popular vote; ​

*Establish 20-year term limits and a mandatory retirement age requirement of federal court judges, including Supreme Court justices. . ."

But I thought this post was about platner.

You still didn't answer my question. I posted a policy positions that you responded to with DU member throwing mud . . .

[Emile]

19. Why did you take one wedge issue and

throw it out there?

[rogue emissary]

20. Still haven't answered my question.

Of course I'll answer yours. It's not a wedge issue. Majority of Americans support a ban 52% to 62% of respondents. A vast majority of Democrats support the ban 70% to 90% respondents.

I didn't just throw it out it's a position I have advocated for here on DU and supported for thirty years.

It's why I happily voted for Bill Clinton's second term.
Why both of my current Senators support the ban and received my vote.

Third time stating this, OP about Platner's position, I posted a position that Platner advocates.

[Emile]

22. Platner's position is what the majority of voters in Maine want.

I'm not a one issue voter, and I don't agree with everything on his platform. Like you, I support an assault weapons ban too. I do like what he says about taking back a government from the wealthy, and giving it back to the people.

[ColoringFool]

24. I Liked It When Fred Harris Said It, Too. Didn't Work Out.

[rogue emissary]

27. Have you heard what David Costello says about wealth in our government?

Your opinion?

[Emile]

28. Never heard of him.

Is he running for something? How's he polling?

[rogue emissary]

29. how did you hear about Planter?

Costello is running in the Maine Senate primary.

[rogue emissary]

30. Could you site a recent poll?

My search didn't find that Maine voters are against a ban. What I found was a reference to a decade-old poll, so I'm not citing it here.

[MineralMan]

21. But his tattoo...

[ColoringFool]

25. I KNOW! Nazi Symbols Are SO 20th Century! Even Prince Harry Has..

sported a Swastika!

Democrats are furious after latest Platner revelations - POLITICO https://share.google/9cE89XeHOC4OEaNQT

[DeeDeeNY]

26. I'm getting some deja vu thinking of the women who came forward before the 2020 presidential election

to say they were hugged "inappropriately" by Joe Biden. Thankfully those stories didn't influence that election.