cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/62988948
A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.
The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.
Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.
“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” she said. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”
Did you even read the article? They validated the heck out of her story.
There’s little chance of finding another electable candidate, getting them sufficiently funded, awareness & trust built, etc. in time to beat Collins. That was the plan.
So is she truthful or is she a tool of the oligarchs?
She’s a tool, but it’s a case of “the evil you know is better than the one you don’t.”EDIT: Wait - do you mean Collins, or the accuser? My initial response was for Collins, the accuser seems on the up & up from the reporting. Read the article for yourself & decide.
She seems credible and at least as reported without ulterior motive, which is why saying she’s been part of a long plan by the oligarchs doesn’t make sense. The timing is a little suspicious, but people have emotions, which could even include releasing something when it’s most damaging to someone who’s wronged you.
The only avenue available for Platner’s win to be an oligarch plan was if they knew for sure this would come out at a politically advantageous time, which would only be true if she was colluding with them for months.
She wasn’t specifically part of the plan, they just knew his problematic past would inevitably blow up his campaign (and if it didn’t happen by itself, then I’m sure they had something in reserve for the usual “October Bombshell”).
The timing was likely caused by conflict within her - does she inevitably make herself a national spectacle (and target for some), or does she allow someone with questionable scruples to get into a position of power? I know I’d have difficulty with that choice.
Platner winning wasn’t the plan - blowing up any credible challenge to Collins was.