Amy Gertner, the wife of Maine Senate candidate Graham Plattner, released a statement after The Wall Street Journal reported that she had previously alleged that her husband exchanged sexually explicit text messages with other women during their marriage. Plant, an oyster farmer and former U.S. Marine, became Maine’s presumptive Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate after his primary rival, Janet Mills, suspended her campaign last month.
“I revealed deeply personal details about my marriage to someone I considered a friend,” Gertner said in a statement released by Plattner’s campaign. “In the months since, I have had to watch her spread malicious gossip to anyone who would take her call. I entrusted this person with the most private chapter of our lives – early in our marriage before we considered any campaign – and I am deeply hurt by her betrayal and invasion of our privacy.”
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“It’s no secret that Graham and I have been working hard. fertility journey. We did the hard work that marriage requires. We went for consultation. We were honest with each other in a way that wasn’t easy. We got through it, not because of how much we had been through, but because of how much we loved each other and the life we ​​had built. Today our marriage is stronger than ever,” she continued.
Gertner added, “I know who Graham is. I know the man I married and the husband he was to me during the best and worst days of my life. That has not changed and will not change.”
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Plattner has already faced some controversy, including over past racist, sexist and homophobic online posts that are now being swept under the rug tattoo one of skullconsidered a Nazi symbol. He is running for the seat of five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins.
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Plattner’s team began conducting opposition research on him to unveil new information during his Senate bid after launching his campaign last August ahead of a Labor Day rally with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. At the time, Gertner and Genevieve McDonald, the campaign’s political director at the time, revealed she discovered sexually explicit messages he sent to other women on his phone in the spring of 2025. The two subsequently began marriage counseling, and campaign aides considered the information a private matter.
