Inside Graham Platner’s Controversial Rise

Graham Platner joins small list of Mainers to make Time magazine cover

The Sullivan oyster farmer and U.S. Senate candidate is in rare company when it comes to Mainers who have appeared on the front of the long-running publication.

Graham Platner will appear on TIME magazine's cover

@media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {.gb-6a0f477567c84{font-size: 16px!important;}} When BDN shines a light, policymakers act. Make a gift to help our reporters keep Maine’s leaders informed. Make a donation now.  Graham Platner will appear on the cover of an upcoming issue of TIME magazine. In a profile published online Thursday morning, a TIME correspondent charts the Sullivan oyster farmer’s meteoric rise on the Pine Tree State’s politi…

Inside Graham Platner’s Controversial Rise

Time: “Platner’s story feels a lot like a pat movie plot: With Democratic voters yearning for outsiders to shake up the system, along comes a rough-hewn, gravelly voiced Marine Corps veteran from Sullivan, Maine—pop. 1,300—as their new national star. He barnstorms the state with a -pugilistic brand of economic populism, building a following so quickly that he forces his central-casting opponent, the two-term Democratic governor, Janet Mills, out…