Yeah, bringing it up a few weeks before the primary, when Mainers could still chose a popular female governor instead, is the definition of
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“benefitting the GOP.”
So here’s some insider baseball on Platner’s stuff.
I knew about the Fifield abuse allegations last October when I was in Maine. I didn’t know who it was or the extend of it. All I knew is that he got violent with an ex and she was a Republican,
I hinted at them here several times, saying that Mills campaign was trying to get her on the record but she, a couple of other women, didn’t want to talk. Mills campaign knew Fifield was a Republican and that she and others were holding on to their story until it was advantageous for the GOP (1)