A gay Maine man seeking Susan Collins's senate seat says he isn't buying Graham Platner's redemption story...

[PeaceWave]

Nazi, Communist or otherwise, you've got to hand it to Graham Platner. The man has the ability to coalesce people - against him. Today, it was fellow Democrat Jordan Wood, speaking in a thoughtful manner about Platner's thoughtless manner of speaking...

https://www.advocate.com/politics/jordan-wood-graham-platner-maine

Maine U.S. Senate candidate Jordan Wood says the moral test for public office isn’t about perfection — it’s about what people do once their mistakes are exposed. In an interview with The Advocate, the former congressional chief of staff and only out gay candidate in the race said fellow Democrat Graham Platner’s history of antigay posts and his Nazi-era tattoo aren’t just poor judgment. They’re disqualifying.

“I believe deeply in second chances,” Wood said. “But what I saw was someone who doesn’t understand what’s wrong with these statements — how offensive and threatening they are, not just to LGBTQ people, but to people of color and women.”

[lame54]

1. Maine is going to fuck up royally

[Cha]

3. No, Maine is Not. nt

[QueerDuck]

6. Exactly! Thank heavens and saints-be-praised that all this crap is coming out NOW.

See? This is what happens when people RUSH to endorse (without vetting) and it's what happens when people support him for one reason and one endorsement... and it's what happens when ego and stubbornness cause people to pretend that none of these revelations matter. (But they do matter. Very much.)

[sheshe2]

2. Jordan Wood is a good man, and he speaks the truth.

Platner needs to go.

[rogue emissary]

4. We need more democrats like Wood.