THE PLATNER REPLACEMENT PROCESS IS A FARCE

The Maine state Democratic Party has proposed having aeound 600 delegates vote on picking Platners replacement.

500 of those delegates will be people elected at the county level through elections or caucuses.

These are the only people who should be involved in picking Platners replacement and nominating a new candidate for senator.

More tuan 100 of those delegates will be largely unelected party insiders. Having the Democratic Party apparatus hold 100 of the delegate seats gives them enormous influence in steering the process towards the final candidate of their choice.

These 100 delegates include state party officers such as the chair, the secretary, the and treasurer as well as the executives of the finance, rules and grievance committees as well as DNC representatives including DNC rules and finance chairs and other Washington DC federal Democrats such as the far right JARED GOLDEN, and at large members (elected by the democratic state committee in odd numbered years, and whose names are not even publicly disclosed).

It also includes county chairs, county-elected DSC members, and conditional alternates who actually were elected by maine voters in May of this year. Although those small special elections tend to go unnoticed by most registered maine Democratic voters and are attended mostly by party insiders who already have some elected or paid within the party (because regular people are busy leading their lives and not showing up for every single state party function).

The process will give voting power to Maine Democratic Party officials, DNC representatives, caucus representatives, and committee chairs who were not elected directly by the 2026 Senate primary electorate

THIS FARCE OF A REPLACEMENT PROCESS INCLUDES MANY ELITE DEMOCRATIC PARTY INSIDERS

This is what people voted against when they voted for Platner and a progressive platform in the primary in overwhelming and historic numbers

GET RID OF THE 100 DELEGATES FROM THE DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE

Only delegates elected directly by Maine voters during this election cycle, during this summer, should be included