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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at his Primary Election event on June 9, 2026 in Blue Hill, Maine.
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The Issue: Graham Platner wins Maine’s Democratic Senate primary despite his long list of scandals.
The Democrats are doing anything possible to wrest the Senate from the Republicans, with a great example being their support for Graham Platner, who won the Maine Democratic primary (“He’s Maine event,” June 11).
In the past, he appeared to endorse political violence, criticized officers of the law and dismissed rape charges in the military. If that isn’t enough, he had a Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest. He had totally lame excuses for all these radical stances.
The Democrats’ concern for the welfare of Maine’s citizens seems secondary to hurting President Trump in any way possible. The Democrats were once the party of the people.
Marty Orenstein
New Hyde Park
How sad that the Democratic Party has decided to support Platner in the US Senate race.
When asked by reporters about the numerous allegations against him, Graham pleads ignorance. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says he knows nothing about Platner, but, 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 rest of the Capitol Hill Democrats are willing to put up with anything or anybody to win in November.
Sal Giarratani
Boston, Mass.
It is inconceivable to me why there is such an outcry about Platner winning the primary. He has all the qualifications for being a perfect Democratic senator: low moral character, a liar, an antisemite and a man with questionably perverse sexual preferences.
Seamus Lang
Belle Harbor
As more and more stories about Platner surface, it is obvious that he is unfit to be in the US Senate. The laundry list of things he’s said and done over the years would have ended his campaign in years past. Yet the character of individual candidates is now subordinate to a Marxist anti-American ideology and that is a real threat to the future of the country.
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
In Platner’s acceptance speech, his quote was not completely correct. He should have said: I once was lost, but now I’m found, for you gullible voters just elected a clown. If elected senator of Maine, I promise to make your lives miserable with numerous socialist polices.
Robert Neglia
The Bronx
The Issue: East Villagers fail to block Mayor Mamdani’s East Third Street homeless-intake center.
This “win” for Mamdani is a disaster for the East Village (“E. Village shelter a Mam win,” June 11).
The building is not big enough or staffed enough to process this many men. They will be flooding our streets. It’s not fair to us or to them.
The neighborhood was totally blindsided by this plan. Then the court proceedings seemed to go exceedingly well for us, yet we were shocked that the final judgment was in favor of the city. Thanks for nothing, Mr.-Not-My-Mayor Mamdani.
Carol Puttre-Czyz
Manhattan
For decades the Municipal Men’s Shelter at 8 East Third St. was a constant threat to life and limb. Community members marched down 2nd Avenue carrying a casket with a sign, “The Death Of The Lower East Side.” I remember; I was there in the late 1970s.
It took many painful years of demands, and an exposé by The Post that resulted in an admission by a city official that 8 East 3rd St. was out of control, to see change.
And now City Hall wants to turn the building back into the hellhole it was with no regard to the safety of the people who live there.
Richard Boodman
Long Beach
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