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Democratic Party campaign strategist Morris Katz, who helped contain the fallout from Graham Platner’s sexting scandal, has past writings that include comments about sending and receiving “nudes” and a footnote in a puberty guide for boys that referenced using images of his own penis. The resurfaced writings have drawn scrutiny from Maine Republicans, who argue Katz’s past writings add another bizarre layer to a Platner campaign already struggling to move past allegations involving numerous scandals revolving around the candidate’s judgment.
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As expected, the matter has reached another stage.
Morris Katz, a Democratic Party campaign strategist, has past writings that include comments about sending and receiving “nudes” and a footnote in a puberty guide for boys that referenced using images of his own penis. Katz was involved in containing the fallout from Graham Platner’s sexting scandal. Platner’s campaign has been dogged by controversies, including allegations of abuse and exchanging sexually explicit messages with multiple women early in his marriage on the platform Kik. The controversy has intensified, with reports that Platner still had an active profile on Kik.
The sequence of events has become a familiar performance: a scandal emerges, a strategist tries to contain the fallout, and the controversy intensifies.
It’s a performance that has been repeated in various forms, with different players, but the same script.
The question is, what’s the next act in this performance?
Author: Evan Null
