{"id":12334,"date":"2026-06-03T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=12334"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:45:00","slug":"top-mamdani-spox-raked-in-more-than-50k-consulting-for-graham-platners-maine-senate-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=12334","title":{"rendered":"Top Mamdani spox raked in more than $50K consulting for Graham Platner&#8217;s Maine Senate campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; 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height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The top spokesman for Mayor Mamdani raked in more than $50,000 for political consulting work on Maine Senate Democratic candidate Graham Platner\u2019s campaign right up until he started at City Hall in January.<\/p>\n<p>Press secretary Joe Calvello quit the consulting gig before getting the job with NYC \u2014 for which he\u2019s paid a cool $210,000 a year, according to the mayor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s yet another Mamdani insider with close ties to the embattled left-wing oysterman \u2014 who was revealed to have been sexting up to a dozen women while married. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Graham for Maine paid a Wyoming-based political firm registered in Mamdani press secretary Joe Calvello\u2019s name a total of $50,036.07 for communications consulting between Oct. 1, 2025, and Jan. 9, 2026. <span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also cross-pollinating between the camps is lefty kingmaker Morris Katz \u2014 who faced backlash for allegedly browbeating the ex-staffer who blew the whistle on Platner and tried to kill the sexting story.<\/p>\n<p>The Calvello gig was wrapped up in a Wyoming-based LLC \u2014 which have been used in the past to obscure shady deals.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Graham for Maine paid a company registered to Joe Calvello a total of $50,036.07 for \u201ccommunications consulting\u201d between Oct. 1, 2025, and Jan. 9, 2026, according to federal campaign finance filings, with the final $10,000 payment arriving nine days after the mayor was sworn in.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor\u2019s office noted that Calvello\u2019s start date was Jan. 13, meaning he didn\u2019t have to declare a conflict of interest or obtain a waiver to finish his work for Platner \u2014 as well as other Democratic candidates \u2014 before joining the Mamdani administration.<\/p>\n<p>Calvello has shared statements from Platner responding to the Trump administration\u2019s capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro as recently as Jan. 3 \u2014 and spent the preceding year promoting the candidate\u2019s appearances at rallies, town halls and other events.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"\/>\n<p>More than 6,500 people turned out for an event Platner did with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in September, and the Senate hopeful returned to his old stomping grounds in Washington, DC, to tend bar at the Tune Inn 10 days later \u2014 with Calvello by his side.<\/p>\n<p>Calvello\u2019s firm, Common Pheasant Consulting LLC, was incorporated in Cheyenne, Wyo., in May 2025 and received a total of more than $68,500 from Democratic campaigns between August of that year and the following January.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter aligncenter inline-module--nypostbusinessunit aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-newsletter\" data-source-unit=\"Inline Newsletter Module Morning Report\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__title-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__unsubmitted-title-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>LLCs in the state don\u2019t have to disclose other owners or members, making it difficult to determine who receives additional money for political campaign work besides the registered agent.<\/p>\n<p>As of May 2, Common Pheasant had also received a notice that it was tax delinquent, according to Wyoming business records.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Calvello shared statements from Platner responding to the Trump administration\u2019s capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro as recently as Jan. 3. <span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Robert F. Bukaty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this year, a Big Apple watchdog group uncovered hundreds of thousands of dollars that had flowed from the ex-Mayor Eric Adams campaign to Wyoming-based LLCs and urged the city\u2019s Campaign Finance Board to investigate, NBC News 4 reported, noting it was \u201cincredibly suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calvello did not respond to a request for comment about Platner\u2019s recent sexual messaging scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic flack had previously served as communications director for Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) after his successful 2022 campaign against Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Keystone State \u2014 and as a strategic adviser to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The mayor\u2019s office noted that Calvello\u2019s start date was Jan. 13, meaning he didn\u2019t have to declare a conflict of interest or obtain a waiver to finish his work for Platner. <span class=\"credit\">IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the weekend, a former Platner aide told The New York Times that the candidate had\u00a0exchanged steamy texts with at least six women\u00a0\u2014 and that the Maine Democrat\u2019s wife had come forward with the allegations last year.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate\u2019s former political director Genevieve McDonald \u2014 who left the Democrat\u2019s campaign last October \u2014 said Platner\u2019s wife Amy Gertner came clean\u00a0about his \u201csexting\u201d in August 2025, the month before she was put on the campaign payroll, receiving more than $28,750 through March of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Platner and Gertner dismissed The Times and Wall Street Journal reports as \u201cgossip,\u201d but they admitted to having sought marriage counseling and defended their union as \u201cvery loving and very happy\u201d \u2014 despite the setback.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Platner also reportedly as of this week still maintained a profile, \u201cPhustle0331,\u201d on Kik, a chat app for hookups, that displayed a bathroom mirror selfie\u00a0with himself wrapped just in a towel. <span class=\"credit\">Obtained by NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Platner also reportedly as of this week still maintained a profile, \u201cPhustle0331,\u201d on Kik, a chat app for hookups, that displayed a bathroom mirror selfie\u00a0with himself wrapped just in a towel, The Daily Wire reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhustle! Have you seen Phustle? \u2026 We didn\u2019t match up on Kik,\u201d Fetterman mocked Platner using his purported Kik account profile name on Tuesday when speaking with reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you shouldn\u2019t send sexually explicit texts or d\u2014k pics, or whatever he sends to all these women on Kik,\u201d Fetterman said, according to NOTUS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was like less than a year ago. I mean, what\u2019s next?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cPhustle! Have you seen Phustle? \u2026 We didn\u2019t match up on Kik,\u201d Fetterman mocked Platner using his purported Kik account profile name on Tuesday when speaking with reporters. <span class=\"credit\">The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The candidate used a similar user name of \u201cP-Hustle\u201d to post profane comments on Reddit forums \u2014 including one about how women worried about rape should \u201cnot get so f\u2013ked up they wind up having sex with someone they don\u2019t mean to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaine, I am asking you not to judge me for the worst thing I said on the internet, on my worst day 14 years ago, but who I am today and the kind of senator I promise to be,\u201d Platner later said in an ad.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently ahead of Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins in the Maine general election\u2019s polls by 7.8 percentage points, according to the RealClearPolitics aggregator, though ex-Democratic primary opponent and Gov. Janet Mills recently reminded voters she remains on the June 9 state ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the likelihood that Mills, who suspended her campaign, triumphs over Platner due to the ballot remaining the same, one Democratic operative told The Post, \u201cI just don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to happen \u2014 grassroots would flip out. 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