On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 2:45 PM Dudley Gray dudleyg.gray@gmail.com wrote:
To: Cyndi Wood cwood@ellsworthamerican.com
Dear Cyndi, In your position as Editor of the Ellsworth American, and your willingness to publish all points of view, I offer mine. DGG
Subject: From one Veteran to another
Dear Editor,
Graham Platner demonstrates sufficient moral challenges to render him unfit to hold any office higher than Harbormaster, and is totally unfit for the Senate of the United States.
First example: calling the police "bastards, all of them, in fact, while f-ing around on the internet."
Number 2: According to CNN in 2021, he called himself a communist and insulted rural Americans as "racist and stupid."
Number 3: he warns women who have been raped to be careful who they sleep with. It is like it is their fault, but it shows his utter disdain for women.
Number 4: His since-erased Nazi SS "Totenkopf" (death head) tattoo shows his ignorance and lack of empathy for the 6 million jews executed by the Hitler regime from 1933-45. Supposedly, he is well-educated but displays only regret for his failings some fourteen years ago, and claims to be a new man. Hogwash!!
Number 5: Approaching Easter today, we find that he called Jesus a "zombie" and Mother Mary a "Skank". Every Christian should reject him out of hand.
Lastly, my stomach turns watching him represent veterans, loggers, and fishermen in his local ads at Tidal Falls, Sorrento, and Sullivan, walking his dog, rowing a dinghy, and pulling his oyster traps while at the same time collecting $4800 monthly in Veterans Administration benefits for his 100% disability. Many injured veterans are denied VA benefits because of their personal financial balance sheet. I can't believe he isn't the beneficiary of some of his Grandfather's wealth which he is using to buy a U.S. Senate seat in the country he detests.
I just hope he flames out soon.
[Signature: Dudley Gray]
Dudley Gray
Rangeley Plantation