The rats are jumping ship and one of them refused to sign a NDA, even for big money. Good for her.
Yikes. Self-described communist Graham Platner offered his former campaign chief $15k to sign an NDA. She declined, and resigned over his Reddit posts, and then called him out for misleading statements about the Nazi tattoo. https://t.co/RwZwTQyoZS pic.twitter.com/27lr5N3lG3
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) October 23, 2025
Graham Platner is shaking up his campaign amid a swirl of controversy, bringing in a longtime friend to function as his Maine Senate campaign’s new manager, hiring a compliance firm and sending non-disclosure agreements to staffers.
Kevin Brown — who became the campaign manager this week and whose past campaign work includes the presidential bids of Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama, though he has not worked in Maine — is only one of the changes. The campaign has also brought on an in-house attorney, as well as compliance firm Spruce Street Consulting, which has ties to a constellation of buzzy progressives including Zohran Mamdani.
Amid fallout from Platner’s controversial years-old social media posts, his campaign began sending non-disclosure agreements to staffers last week, according to his former top political director, Genevieve McDonald, who said she declined to sign one.
“The campaign offered me $15,000 to sign a NDA,” McDonald told POLITICO in an interview. “I did not accept the offer. I certainly could have used the money. I quit my job to work on Platner’s campaign, believing it was something different than it is.”
A statement from the campaign referred to the $15,000 offer as standard severance. A Platner campaign spokesperson said the team recently hired Spruce Street “to take over campaign compliance to institute standard practices that had yet to be put into place. Some of those standards had to be instituted retroactively but as a matter of course we do not require anyone previously involved in the campaign to do so. Genevieve McDonald was offered severance which is standard for all campaign employees and contractors.”
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Don't worry @krystalball has a defense for this https://t.co/RkVIRdbGNg
— Drexl (@MedellinGooner) October 24, 2025
imploding https://t.co/LBV7R3FH7H
— Ian S. Patton (@ispatton) October 23, 2025
It's a ship that's going down.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 23, 2025
So the best Democrats have to offer is a nazi and a guy who fantasized about shooting his opponents kids? Did I get that right? https://t.co/hzKxVoaWKn
— Brandon 🇺🇸🥓🥃 (@Brash_1) October 24, 2025
The talent pool is an inch deep.
I'm sure every elected Democrat in California is going to denounce this guy & ask him to step away from the campaign. https://t.co/d7Dywc2Lfh
— Lance Christensen (@lancelands) October 23, 2025
Don't hold your breath.
Hahahahahahaha yes let them fight yesssssss https://t.co/8qamJ2zsHz
— Michael Watson (@MichaelWatsonDC) October 23, 2025
There it is.
— 𝕯ug (@DugShrugged) October 23, 2025
The coverup is always worse than the crime.
He's toast. https://t.co/EiL3A3oQL6
Get your popcorn ready. It's only going to get more juicy.