A weekly newsletter on power and the press Graham Platner, a 41-year-old Marine veteran and Maine oyster farmer, burst onto the political scene last August to run for Senate, scored an endorsement from Bernie Sanders, was profiled in the New Yorker, and by October, became embroiled in a series of seemingly campaign-ending controversies. There was the tattoo Platner got in 2007 that had Nazi connotations — which he claimed he was not aware of at the time and later covered over — and derogatory posts years back on Reddit, ranging from speaking dismissively about sexual assault to using homophobic slurs. “Ten, fifteen, even five years ago, I don't have any doubt that he would’ve just been totally nuked by that out of the gate,” said Alex Seitz-Wald, deputy editor of Maine’s Midcoast Villager, who added that Platner would have become a “cautionary tale about why you don’t get excited about no-name viral candidates who are oyster farmers and have no political experience.” With Mills dropping out of the race... 
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