Graham Platner

And we're going to hold a bunch more after that, like making myself accessible

in a way that isn't controlled.

Like we don't screen questions at these things.

People just come and I literally pick on folks who raise their hands.

Drives the comms team insane.

They are terrified.

But I think that's how you make yourself accessible.

And we need politics to be accessible again to regular folks.

So if anything, I'm very much a labor candidate.

I believe in the need to strengthen unions.

I believe in the power of organized labor within our society to advocate not just for like their union members, but kind of for the working class in general.

The governor has effectively vetoed every single pro-labor bit of legislation that's come across her desk.

She's been an opponent of labor.

I mean, right now I have, forget how many, but a bunch of union endorsements.

By the time it gets to the primary, we're probably gonna have the vast majority of unions in Maine.

because they have a not great relationship with the governor.

And to me, we need to pass the PRO Act.

We need to expand the NLRB or have the NLRB, we need to expand the labor courts and have an NLRB that actually acts as a good faith intermediary in unfair labor practice disputes, which right now, I mean, it doesn't even have a quorum right now, so it's all not functioning.

And like someone who's vetoed pro-labor legislation over and over and over again, to me is not someone that's like gonna go to the mattresses to fight for it in DC.

I also think that Maine has a very fraught relationship with the Wabanaki nations.