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Graham Platner is shaking up his campaign amid a swirl of controversy, bringing in a longtime friend to function as his Maine Senate campaigns 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 Platners 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 Platners 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
Celerity
(52,716 posts)Btw, I can think of only one other campaign that tried to use an NDA.
Cha
(315,242 posts)That sounds promising..
Wait.. So there's More?
ProfessorGAC
(74,937 posts)The very notion that staffers are getting NDAs to sign is itself suspicious.
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Cha
(315,242 posts)he voted for Collins in 2020.. So if that is true.. What?!