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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFetterman running his gums.
Fetterman is MAGA scum and supports Trump who is actually convicted of sexual assault we all know this yet his hypocrisy pisses me off.
As for Platner i believe that law enforcement should speak with Jenny Raciot and if they the authorities do find that she was raped then proceed with investigation.
As i googled the statute of limitations on rape in the state of Maine and it reads twenty years from date of offense if I read it correctly.
Just a rage rant is all off this week off with Covid. And constantly listening or reading the news i will now put my soap box away people.
https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/17-a/title17-asec8.html
https://aclj.org/news/sen-fetterman-has-had-enough
Tim S
(385 posts)Mary Jo Kopechnes death caused by Ted Kennedys Chappaquiddick car accident didnt disqualify him from office. But imagine if it did all the good Ted Kennedy did as a Senator and national leader never would have happened. Just because of a very bad decision before he turned his life around.
I dont pretend to know Platners past, and as a non-Mainer, its none of my business because he wouldnt be representing me. Everyone has a past that they are not proud of. Some obviously worse than others. Luckily, many people recognize their destructive patterns and turn their lives around. If you believe in redemption, then you should let todays current person go about doing good to make the world a better place. And if you dont believe in redemption, people who make bad-to-horrific choices in life are doomed to pay penance forever, never given the option to make a meaningful contribution towards a better society.
Platner, as a Demoratic Socialism type, represents a massive change to entrenched power and threatens to turn the tables on existing power. In the 60s, such people were eliminated by an assassins bullet. Today all it takes is unsubstantiated allegations to the MSM who are happy to repeat it without performing their journalistic duties that used to be performed in the past.
If a person commits a crime and is found guilty in a court of law, let them suffer the adjudicated consequences. Otherwise focus on today and where we are headed tomorrow.
WinningAgain
(64 posts)As long as we have the correct letter after there name?
I hope some of you never have daughters.
BannonsLiver
(21,195 posts)Wifes husband
(800 posts)But past behavior is often the only way we can evaluate a person. Maybe we can find people that have proven to be a decent individual.