Why? Why! Why?

[Mossfern]

Dammit.

I know there may be a pay wall, but I don't know how to provide the article for free.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/graham-platner-maine-senate-texts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.8fjy.l6anld8dVfjr&smid=url-share

Graham Platner’s insurgent bid for Senate in Maine was gathering steam last summer when his campaign was confronted with some potentially explosive information.

Mr. Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, told a senior campaign aide that he had been exchanging sexual messages with multiple other women.

It was the kind of revelation with the potential to damage the political newcomer just as his campaign to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, was beginning to resonate with voters, especially in a state where female voters make up a large share of the electorate.

Mr. Platner’s exchanges with women were confirmed by current and former campaign officials, who gave different accounts of some of the details. Ms. Gertner said the couple, who had married in November 2023, according to the town clerk of Sullivan, Maine, was working through his indiscretions in marriage counseling.

[Irish_Dem]

1. What question are you asking?

Why men are sexual bad boys?
Or why we run bad boys for high office?

[Mossfern]

4. Both

.... and why couldn't his wife realize that she should not confide in anyone if her husband has political aspirations. She was naive, not evil, but the Republicans will try to take this and run. But then again they support a convicted sexual assaulter and a accused rapist.

[Irish_Dem]

7. The wife 100% did the right thing.

It was extremely important that the campaign manager know about any skeletons
before running a campaign. They hate getting blindsided.
You have to stay ahead of the bad news.

And it is naive to think the MAGAs would not have found out about this on their own.
They hire detectives to scrape out the tiniest bit of dirt on Dems.

The answer to your other question:
The sex drive in males is incredibly strong (see Darwin for more info on this topic).
And with some men of weak character/ limited intellect/ poor judgment,
they act it out even when it means the destruction of everything important to them:
marriage, family, income, job, country, etc.

[Ocelot II]

2. No paywall link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/graham-platner-maine-senate-texts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.N7oK.801gKbSUrwkY&smid=url-share

[mcar]

3. Well, at least he's not old

[choie]

5. Because he thinks with his penis?

[Lovie777]

6. I have not read in detail about him.....

See quite often threads mostly criticizing him so from that I’m surprised he’s winning in the polls at this point in time.

[a kennedy]

9. Yah, like tRump and his "details".....

and look what happen with him. ELECTED TWICE!!!!!!!! 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[Cirsium]

8. Platner's wife

“I confided deeply personal details about my marriage to someone I considered a friend,” she said. “I trusted this person with the most private chapter of our lives — the early days of our marriage before any campaign was on our mind.”

“Our marriage today is stronger than ever before,” she added. “I know the man I married and the husband he has been to me on the best and the worst days of my life. That hasn’t changed, and it won’t.”

“We did the hard work that marriage requires. We went to counseling. We were honest with each other in ways that weren’t easy. And we came through it.”

“The Maine that we love so much is under attack,” Ms. Gertner said. “And I know that he’s the right person to do the job.”

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. .

“The Maine that we love so much is under attack,” Ms. Gertner said. “And I know that he’s the right person to do the job.”

I mean, she's a paid campaign staffer.