cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/62988948
A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.
The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.
Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.
“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” she said. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”
shit heels like you are why people don’t report their rapes.
She could have reported him for breaking & entering and there’s nothing personal about reporting that. But, no, no. Let’s wait for years and years, until it’s politically convenient for the billionaire Epstein class and almost impossible to defend yourself. That’s my issue. Always the same pattern, over and over.
I want you to go talk to an actual woman in your life (assuming any will talk with you), and complain to her about this. Perhaps your mother will smack some sense into you.
Thank you for standing up against this victim blaming in these comment threads.