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Sure, Ben. I mean it's "totally fake" as in it's a hobby and comparing Graham's hobby to actual Maine fishermen and lobstermen is insulting. The hobby became a campaign expenditure (unreported to the FEC) with a website that was created as a campaign prop after Graham Platner was groomed for a Senate run. He has no employees. He has described his oyster production as "small," which according to the Maine DMR means fewer than 100k oysters, which is maximum gross commercial value of $80k. His only customer is his mom. She's not selling 100k oysters per year, because Graham just explained at length that she's so poor he doesn't know what she'll do for retirement. There are bag ladies searching the streets for returnables that have higher margins and better business models than Graham's oyster hobby. He now claims he offers "tours" so how the hell do you run a real tourism-based business without a website? Because that's what he claims he was doing from 2019 to 2024, when the website was registered. The phrase "oysterman" is not in common usage. The last time someone used it was the 1908 book "The Oysterman and Fisherman" but the oyster industry is now properly understood as large-scale aquaculture. It's impossible to have a real oyster business without massive scale. The "oysterman" term was appropriated by his campaign team and gullible libs from out-of-state lapped it up. If Graham is an "Oysterman" then I'm a chicken farmer.

NEW: Graham Platner (D) leads Susan Collins (R) in the Maine Senate odds with a 59% chance

🚨🚨DEVELOPING: Multiple sources tell the Maine Wire that an RCV thumb drive for Biddeford is missing. We've heard reports that Bath is missing as well, and Bowdoinham ballots need to be re-scanned. The election was a week ago, and we still don't have results for several races due to the RCV tally process.

A photograph posted to the Socialist Rifle Association shows Graham Platner’s unmistakable ginger beard as he shields his pale skin from the scorching sun of the firing range. Last October, The Robinson Report broke the story that Graham Platner — the disabled Sullivan veteran with an oyster hobby who is now the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate — had personally instructed members of the Socialist Rifle Association in firearms training in Maine. Now, two additional accounts — both from self-described left-wingers — have surfaced that confirm Platner’s top role in the Maine chapter of firearms and political activism org. The reporting previously rested on Platner’s own words, as well as pictures from an official Socialist Rifle Association (SRA) social media account that appeared to show Platner serving as a range officer for the group’s training sessions. Graham Platner’s SRA trainees display an Industrial Workers of the World flag. The IWW was founded in Chicago in 1905 by a coalition of radical unionists, socialists, anarchists, and Marxists, including figures like Bill Haywood and Eugene Debs. Posting under the Reddit handle “P-Hustle,” he wrote in August 2020 that his chapter ran “lots of range days, firearms education classes,” that he’d “just put on a defensive handgun course two weekends ago,” and that the group ran monthly introductory courses plus “more advanced classes for experienced members.” In a separate post, he recruited a Mainer to the chapter directly: “We’re quite active.”