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Platner’s primary opponent is literally Mothership Strategies [1]
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Date: 2025-09-01
Following on the news of Bernie Sanders supporting Graham Platner for Maine Senate, I stumbled across this tidbit from Ryan Grim:
A Democratic Senate candidate running in Maine on a platform of getting money out of politics has spent his career entangled with controversial PACs created by the notorious email fundraising firm Mothership Strategies. The firm pioneered the hair-on-fire fundraising tactics that often send more money to political consultants than to political candidates.
As you may recall, Mothership:
…was recently the subject of yet another viral investigation that revealed that of the $678 million the company’s core political action committees raised since 2018, just $11 million went to candidates; $159 million made its way to Mothership Strategies. Meanwhile, the firm’s spammy approach to email and text messaging—mock overdue bills, sky-is-falling rhetoric, and so on—has left the grassroots commons desiccated
Said candidate, Jordan Wood, got his start with fundraising spam scourge End Citizen’s United, and has quickly racked up big support from…Mothership associated PACs.
The two PACs have already deployed their massive email lists in the service of fundraising for Wood, whose campaign said he has already raised more than $2 million. From a political perspective, the early endorsements were puzzling, as 77-year-old Maine Gov. Janet Mills has yet to decide whether to run, which had the effect of largely freezing the field of candidates. The PACs endorsed before knowing who else would run…
Maine is one of those repeatedly disappointing money sink Senate races where the race gets nationalized, billions of spam emails get sent, and millions of small dollar donations pour into the hands of PACs, and then Susan Collins always manages to win anyway.
The Democratic Party has been courting Trump defying Governor Janet Mills for this seat, and then Platner emerged as an intriguing dark horse. But Wood seems to want to cut out the middleman. Interesting development — watch your SMS texts for more (very urgent) details!
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