Amy Gertner, wife of Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, says she is \u2018hurt\u2019 ex-political director exposed texts<\/p>\n
Senate hopeful Graham Platner of Maine exchanged sexually explicit texts with other women during his marriage, according to information his wife shared with his campaign last year, the New York Times<\/a> and the Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n Platner, an oyster farmer and former US marine, is Maine\u2019s presumptive Democratic nominee for the US Senate after his main competitor, Janet Mills, suspended her campaign last month<\/a>. He\u2019s vying to unseat five-term Republican senator<\/a> Susan Collins in a campaign that\u2019s captured viral progressive attention<\/a>, while also facing controversy related to dredged-up racist, sexist and homophobic online posts \u2013 and a now-covered-up tattoo<\/a> of a Totenkopf, widely recognized as a Nazi symbol.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amy Gertner, wife of Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, says she is \u2018hurt\u2019 ex-political director exposed texts Senate hopeful Graham Platner of Maine exchanged sexually explicit texts with other women during his marriage, according to information his wife shared with his campaign last year, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported. Platner, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}