Mainers shouldn’t want an inexperienced and morally questionable senator
I shouldn’t be surprised that the letters from May 30 are in 100 percent agreement that it is perfectly justifiable to overlook the many shortcomings Graham Platner has demonstrated over the years. Having a Nazi symbol emblazoned on his chest would be immediately condemned if he were a Republican or even a conservative-leaning independent.
I’d call that more than a little hypocritical.
Now Platner’s wife has disclosed that he was sending sexually explicit messages to several women early in their marriage. What’s next, and will your readers still find it acceptable? Hopefully these voices, predominantly from true blue Massachusetts, will not influence pragmatic Down East Democrats into turning a Senate seat held by the seventh most senior senator in Congress to someone who, if elected, will become one of our most inexperienced and junior senators.
David Mahoney
Westford
Don’t encourage harmful conspiracy theories
There is legitimate room for discussion and disagreement over Representative Jake Auchincloss’s failure to endorse Graham Platner.
I was, however, dismayed to see that the Globe had published a letter suggesting that Auchincloss’s decision was because both he and Senator Susan Collins receive “considerable support from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.” This smacks of the “Jewish conspiracy” canard that claims that Jews “control” our government — quite a claim, given that Jews make up only 2.4 percent of the population of the United States. Publishing letters that essentially claim there is a Jewish conspiracy fuels the uptick in antisemitism and antisemitic violence in this country.
Phyllis Schacht
Sharon