Embattled Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner’s treasurer has resigned, becoming the fourth person to flee Platner’s campaign in little over a month as reports broke of the candidate’s racist and anti-police social media posts and Nazi tattoo.
Treasurer Victoria Perrone ditched Platner’s campaign last Tuesday, the Substack “Judge Street Journal” reported based on a source and FEC filings. Perrone’s firm, Spruce Street, will also no longer handle Platner’s campaign compliance issues “after less than a month of working for Platner,” according to Judge Street Journal.
The campaign has found itself torn apart by controversies since reports broke of Platner’s old social media posts, in which he said that “all” cops are bastards, called white rural Americans racist and stupid, called himself a communist, and asked why black people “don’t tip.” Platner later confessed to having a tattoo of a Nazi symbol, which he has since covered up.
The Maine Democrat is facing an exodus of advisers amid the scandals. On Friday, the campaign’s finance director publicly resigned, saying, “My professional standards as a campaign professional no longer fully aligned with those of the campaign.” Platner’s campaign manager left after just three days on the job, citing his wife’s pregnancy, while his political director resigned earlier last month, later telling Politico that she refused $15,000 from the campaign to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
Platner hired both Perrone and the former campaign manager, Kevin Brown, to help him recover from the controversies, Judge Street Journal noted.
The Washington Free Beacon reported that Platner, who bills himself as a “working-class Mainer” and boasts the endorsement of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), attended an elite Connecticut boarding school and is the grandson of a world-famous architect who designed $20,000 chairs. He told MSNBC last Tuesday he has “lived a fairly simple life” and “never been close to money and power.”
He then expressed support on Sunday for a T-shirt that said billionaires should be “extinct,” the Free Beacon reported.
