Surprise – guy with Nazi tattoo turns out be a bad guy

Politico reports:

A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.

The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.

Platner has managed to shake off having a Nazi tattoo, identifying as a communist, saying all cops are bastards, calling rural white Americans racist and stupid, promoting armed resistance, blaming women who are victims of sexual assault, serial infidelity, violence in relationships etc. None of that was enough to get Democrats to drop him, but finally this may do it.

Where this is harder to shake off is that she told people about what happened at the time, long before Platner was a candidate. And she has also said she shares his political views, explicitly saying she supports his policies, just not him as a person.

I am a believer that character is more important than party. This is why I want both Platner and Ken Paxton to lose.