Graham Platner’s primary win: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Graham Platner wins Maine’s Democratic Senate primary regardless of his long record of scandals.
The Democrats are doing something attainable to wrest the Senate from the Republicans, with a great instance being their help for Graham Platner, who gained the Maine Democratic primary (“He’s Maine event,” June 11).
In the previous, he appeared to endorse political violence, criticized officers of the law and dismissed rape expenses within the navy. If that isn’t enough, he had a Nazi image tattooed on his chest. He had completely lame excuses for all these radical stances.
The Democrats’ concern for the welfare of Maine’s residents appears secondary to hurting President Trump in any means attainable. The Democrats had been as soon as the get together of the people.
Marty Orenstein
New Hyde Park
How unhappy that the Democratic Party has determined to help Platner within the US Senate race.
When requested by reporters in regards to the quite a few allegations in opposition to him, Graham pleads ignorance. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says he is aware of nothing about Platner, however, as your editorial (“Hakeem Pleads Ignorance,” June 8) put it, “As long as it helps Democrats take over Congress, he’ll keep his eyes wide shut.”
Hakeem and the remainder of the Capitol Hill Democrats are prepared to put up with something or anyone to win in November.
Sal Giarratani
Boston, Mass.
It is inconceivable to me why there’s such an outcry about Platner profitable the primary. He has all of the {qualifications} for being a good Democratic senator: low ethical character, a liar, an antisemite and a man with questionably perverse sexual preferences.
Seamus Lang
Belle Harbor
As more and more tales about Platner floor, it’s apparent that he’s unfit to be within the US Senate. The laundry record of issues he’s stated and finished through the years would have ended his marketing campaign in years previous. Yet the character of particular person candidates is now subordinate to a Marxist anti-American ideology and that’s a actual menace to the long run of the nation.
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
In Platner’s acceptance speech, his quote was not fully appropriate. He ought to have stated: I as soon as was misplaced, however now I’m discovered, for you gullible voters simply elected a clown. If elected senator of Maine, I promise to make your lives depressing with quite a few socialist polices.
Robert Neglia
The Bronx
The Issue: East Villagers fail to dam Mayor Mamdani’s East Third Street homeless-intake heart.
This “win” for Mamdani is a catastrophe for the East Village (“E. Village shelter a Mam win,” June 11).
The building will not be massive enough or staffed enough to course of this many males. They will likely be flooding our streets. It’s not honest to us or to them.
The neighborhood was completely blindsided by this plan. Then the courtroom proceedings appeared to go exceedingly properly for us, but we had been shocked that the ultimate judgment was in favor of town. Thanks for nothing, Mr.-Not-My-Mayor Mamdani.
Carol Puttre-Czyz
Manhattan
For many years the Municipal Men’s Shelter at 8 East Third St. was a fixed menace to life and limb. Community members marched down 2nd Avenue carrying a casket with a signal, “The Death Of The Lower East Side.” I bear in mind; I used to be there within the late Seventies.
It took many painful years of calls for, and an exposé by The Post that resulted in an admission by a metropolis official that 8 East third St. was out of control, to see change.
And now City Hall desires to show the building back into the hellhole it was with no regard to the protection of the people who reside there.
Richard Boodman
Long Beach
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