Source: Common Dreams
“Launching a US Senate run to unseat five-term Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, oyster farmer Graham Platner on Tuesday made clear in his inaugural ad that beating the ‘fake’ moderate also means taking on the power-hungry billionaire class that has helped keep her in power all these years. The enemy that the vast majority of Americans and Mainers have in common, said Platner, ‘is the oligarchy’. ‘It’s the billionaires who pay for it,’ he added. ‘The politicians who sell us out. And yeah, that means politicians like Susan Collins.’ Platner … spoke in the ad about how Maine has ‘become unlivable for working people.’ ‘Nobody I know around here can afford a house,’ said Platner. ‘Healthcare is a disaster, hospitals are closing. We have watched all of that get ripped away from us, and everyone’s just trying to keep it all together.'” (08/19/25)