How a Rich Kid Politician Was Spun as a Working Class 'Oysterman'
And by his mother who owns multiple businesses.
While he’s been billed as an outsider candidate with no interest in professional politics, he’s actually the activist son of a council candidate and the husband of a town selectwoman, as well as a local official whom the media had regularly turned to for quotes since at least 2009.
Media write-ups about the Maine Senate candidate’s oyster business typically mention that he grew up in the area leading to the impression that he came from a working-class family from some of the traditional trades, but nothing could be further from the truth about the Platners.
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/09/how-rich-kid-politician-was-spun-as.html
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he sounds like the standard racist MAGAt nutcase to me 
I wonder if there might be a reason? 
If you read the linked article you might find the reason.
I wish I could say I was shocked, but I am not. Between the homophobia and the Nazi tattoo, now all of this about his background does not bode well. Oh course, as soon as this all cropped up, so did the conspiracy theories, some which are actually being treated as "fact".
Kids, they do the darndest things. 
Absolutely nothing. She has every right to run and she is more than qualified.
As for the polls that just came out, I doubt they had a chance to factor in the issues that have been raised about Platner's past, and Mills only entered the race last week. Also, the election is 8 months away. 
donating thousands to the Vermont socialist who would later endorse his son.
saying he's "working Class" when it's Not true.
Is not his Background good enough? All this was bound to come out... So WHY?
Thanks, she.. 
tell the Truth in the Beginning. Now not only does Planter have all these revelations slurring :LGBTQ, Blacks, Women, and a Nazi Tat...
He's not even "working class" and has his Staffers sign NDAs... 
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220744640
to Shut Up about me now.. I want it in writing! Show me your loyalty. Was it because of his Political Director quitting?
Genevieve McDonald
OT; Thank you for all the help you gave to our fellow DUer, 2naSalit. I never moved states before; will they be able to register to vote in June?
Thanks, you are a good guy, OAITW.
I like to think I'm a good guy, at least 93% of the time,
The other 7%, only God knows. 
If you happen to find your way to the middle of nowhere, contact me!
It's a lovely place. I doubt I will get there again, though if I do, I will look you up.
You are indeed one of the good guys.
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2005/03/about-daniel-greenfield.html
About Daniel Greenfield
My name is Daniel Greenfield. I am a Shillman Journalism Fellow and the Executive Vice President of Programs at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. My beat at Front Page Magazine, its blog, The Point, and my own blog, DanielGreenfield.org also known as SultanKnish covers everything from the Left's war on America at home to Islamic terror abroad.
I was named a "hate group of one" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC may not have been too happy that I caught them faking statistics.
From exposing Biden's theft of money from 9/11 victims to fund the Taliban to surveying the Most Corrupt Village in America to racial quotas in the military to being among the first to break the story of government mandates causing widespread COVID deaths in nursing homes, I cover everything.
I delved into Jihadists in the Biden administration, showed Facebook uses UN regulations to censor conservatives, including President Trump, how the CDC Deputy Director helped cover up COVID deaths and documented how Biden's funding of terrorism killed Israelis. Including money sent before the Oct 7 attacks.
I have appeared on the shows of Tucker Carlson, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and many others. "You are one of many people who have given me feedback that my reading and interpretation of that piece by Daniel Greenfield was of profound enlightenment," Rush Limbaugh said of my writing.
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My investigative pieces have included the story of Obama and Pfleger, which I broke months before the mainstream media. I also broke the story of many of Obama's radical clergy ties, including Farrakhan supporters, I revealed that the Vice-President of the Center for American Progress and the former senior adviser for Nancy Pelosi had participated in terrorist fundraising
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Please point out what he said is untrue. There are many publications that have posted the same things. Much of this is from Planters own statements and of his family's history.
His Wiki page states his education and wealth. So...
Here's that other source in your thread, she...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20744711
As an undergrad, I mocked the radical leftist turned reactionary. But with his cruel, vindictive politics taking over the government, he had the last laugh.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/david-horowitz-radical-son/
https://archive.ph/0DzXr
David Horowitz, who died in April, spoke on the CU Boulder campus on February 14, 2005, about what’s wrong with various professors in US universities today.(Brian Brainerd / The Denver Post via Getty Images)
The first time I thought about David Horowitz was in 2006, when I was a 22-year-old senior at Horowitz’s alma mater, Columbia University. A friend—like me and Horowitz, a Jewish David—had commissioned me to review Horowitz’s latest book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, for the Columbia Political Review. As a snotty undergraduate, I agreed to do so on the condition that I wouldn’t have to read the book and that I would admit that I hadn’t upfront. Rather than an actual review, I wrote a generalized attack on Horowitz as a “once-radical hack,” accusing him of producing a McCarthyist screed and of libeling nine Columbia professors among his chosen 101—but I also reduced his life, or what I assumed without any research to be the broad outlines of his life, to a cliché:
It’s embarrassing to revisit some of my earliest writing, but still, I was pretty close. Horowitz was born in January 1939, eight months before World War II broke out in Europe (arguably, it had already begun in Asia). He grew up in Sunnyside, Queens, about five miles from Morningside Heights as the crow flies. He was indeed a second-generation American on both sides, and his parents really were Stalinists, though it was Nikita Khrushchev’s “secret speech” in 1956 rather than the earlier Doctors’ Plot that broke them. He did at some point socialize with Kristol and Podhoretz, he did protest the Vietnam War (not sure about ROTC), and the rest of that second paragraph is essentially accurate too.
says the same thing as the OP..
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20744711
that have come out about the LGBTQ, Blacks, and Women he's slurred.
And, now after all this time and it's Exploded he says he's "covered it".
awareness on how he could have hurt vulnerable people.. "
Especially now when they and so many people are getting Extremely Hurt by the Neo Nazi in the Gold Demolished house. 
Oh and the NDA's for his staffers.. possibly brought on by his Exit of his former Political Direcor.. Genevieve McDonald... and any further revelations..
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2017-12-12/sexual-misconduct-reckoning-is-opportunity-for-democrats-to-reinvigorate
Dec. 12, 2017
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., leaves the Capitol after speaking on the Senate floor, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Franken said he will resign from the Senate in coming weeks following a wave of sexual misconduct allegations and a collapse of support from his Democratic colleagues, a swift political fall for a once-rising Democratic star. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
I lost count of the number of people last week who said, with the air of arch authority, that the Democrats were playing a sucker's game in pressing U.S. Sen. Al Franken to resign. "This is why Democrats lose," some left-liberals said while anti-Trump independents said, "This is why I am not a Democrat." The complaint is that the GOP would never eject one of its own over sexual misconduct, so why should the Democrats? Typical, critics said. The Democrats choose purity over politics.
Some people can't see that Franken's resignation stems from values as well as politics. The Democrats are signaling to every women who ever faced sexual discrimination (which is a lot) that the party is their home, and they are creating conditions in which President Trump's past lechery has the potential to be as threatening to him as past entanglements with Russia. U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the leading Democrat in the Franken purge, said Monday he should resign.
Will Gillibrand's call amount to anything? I have no idea. Given what Trump and the Republicans are willing to do to secure Judge Roy Moore's victory in Tuesday's Senate election in Alabama, I doubt it. But achieving concrete results is only part of the reason for political parties. They exist to provide, as clearly as possible, an expression of the principles they believe serve a majority of Americans in their particular time and place. In this post-Harvey Weinstein moment of reckoning, the Democrats are building a platform from which to say: Freedom is your destiny in the 21st century, and our brand of liberalism is the means of achieving that fate.
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I suspect the women driving this moment of reckoning with no end in sight have heard Edsall's reasoning a few times. I suspect they know a thing or two about not speaking up about the man in charge for fear of retaliation. If these women took Edsall's flawed reasoning to heart, we would not be witnessing this renewed liberal moment. Thank God, they didn't.
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Sounds like a great Dem/liberal guy, but he wrote something against a candidate that Bernie Sanders previously endorsed, so he's our guy?
Forget everything else he espouses.
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/10/how-trump-can-bust-dem-money-machine.html
"On September 22, 2025, President Donald J. Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. Now it’s time to cut off their funding and go after those groups that support them.
In 2023, Freedom Center Investigates exclusively reported that Antifa was raising money through the same Democratic Party platform used by the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). When Kamala became the candidate, the Harris-Walz campaign went on to use that same platform. And the DNC and Antifa are both still on it today..."
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/10/mamdani-will-unleash-violence-against.html#more
AND
Mamdani’s Terror Mosque Called For Taking Over America
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/10/mamdanis-terror-mosque-called-for.html
From his website ... and so much more.
