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RandySF

(78,712 posts)
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 07:41 PM Thursday

ME-SEN: Platner reshuffles campaign and sends out NDAs as he struggles to get ahead of controversies

Graham Platner is shaking up his campaign amid a swirl of controversy, bringing in a longtime friend to function as his Maine Senate campaign’s new manager, hiring a compliance firm and sending non-disclosure agreements to staffers.

Kevin Brown — who became the campaign manager this week and whose past campaign work includes the presidential bids of Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama, though he has not worked in Maine — is only one of the changes. The campaign has also brought on an in-house attorney, as well as compliance firm Spruce Street Consulting, which has ties to a constellation of buzzy progressives including Zohran Mamdani.

Amid fallout from Platner’s controversial years-old social media posts, his campaign began sending non-disclosure agreements to staffers last week, according to his former top political director, Genevieve McDonald, who said she declined to sign one.

“The campaign offered me $15,000 to sign a NDA,” McDonald told POLITICO in an interview. “I did not accept the offer. I certainly could have used the money. I quit my job to work on Platner’s campaign, believing it was something different than it is.”



https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/23/graham-platner-maine-campaign-shakeup-ndas-controversies-00620849?fbclid=IwY2xjawNnmmFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvrYAhFlWqhHyOLA9kMVDwGKDNLdudvBHVrLXekvEayfK57lYKwt74HwbyGl_aem_W_lvaKmJKlqA_qj5MC808A

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ME-SEN: Platner reshuffles campaign and sends out NDAs as he struggles to get ahead of controversies (Original Post) RandySF Thursday OP
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Thanks RandySF Thursday #2
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"... sending non-disclosure agreements to staffers. " Cha Thursday #4
More Skeletons In The Closet ProfessorGAC Thursday #5
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Cha

(315,242 posts)
4. "... sending non-disclosure agreements to staffers. "
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 07:48 PM
Thursday

That sounds promising..

Wait.. So there's More?

ProfessorGAC

(74,937 posts)
5. More Skeletons In The Closet
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 07:49 PM
Thursday

The very notion that staffers are getting NDAs to sign is itself suspicious.

Response to ProfessorGAC (Reply #5)

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