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Graham Platner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
624 total appearances

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

I mean, because I, it's because I explain it and frankly, most people are like, that all sounds eminently reasonable.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

And it's, and I think in Maine, folks, I mean, it's like, I don't know how to say this, but

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

When people meet me, they tend to be like, okay, so he seems exactly like a normal human being.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

So it's- That's helpful.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

It's helpful.

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So there's that.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

And then, I mean, honestly, we're also just going to push back on TV, primarily like with messaging that's positive.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

I mean, I really, I'm-

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

I know that once we get through the primary that, you know, the whole thing's going to โ€“ I mean, there's so much money that's going to get spent on this race, which drives me insane.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

Yeah.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

Because if I had my way, we would just take that money and, like, write everybody a check.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

Frankly, we'd be better off.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

Every cycle when you hear how much is being spent on the biggest Senate races.

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It's nuts.

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It's just like, oh, what a โ€“

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

Although I will say for us, the way that we kind of fight back against that is we're building an on-the-ground organizing apparatus.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

So we hire Mainers, and we're going to have Mainers learn how to be organizers in their communities and have them on staff.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

We want the money.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

that we spend to primarily be spent in Maine, not just give it to some DC consulting firm that makes another stupid ad that we've all seen a thousand times.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

It just changes little things, but we all know exactly what they are.