Episode Seven: Why Graham Platner’s Senate Campaign Collapsed
The Maine Senate story is being told as a scandal that broke. It is more accurately a scandal that surfaced, months late, through a reporter rather than through any process the party controlled. The tattoo was public. The posting history was public. Neither required an investigator to find.
The allegation that ended the campaign in July is denied and unadjudicated, and this episode takes no position on it. The subject is the ten months before it, and the difference between opposition research, which assumes someone else is looking, and diligence, which assumes nobody is. If your board treats a candidate's public record as self-policing, this one is for you.
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