{"id":12802,"date":"2026-06-06T12:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=12802"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:19:31","slug":"maine-senate-candidate-graham-platner-was-an-a-hole-extraordinaire-when-he-bartended-at-tune-inn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=12802","title":{"rendered":"Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner was an &#8216;a-hole extraordinaire&#8217; when he bartended at Tune Inn"},"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; width: 460px; height: 90px; 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=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"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=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; 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=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; 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>Allegedly abusive lefty Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner wasn\u2019t just rough on his ex-girlfriends and sexting behind his wife\u2019s back \u2014 he was also an \u201ca-hole extraordinaire\u201d as a bartender.<\/p>\n<p>Platner, who faced a firestorm this week as he tries to unseat longtime Republican Senator Susan Collins and help the Democrats win the Senate majority, was a deeply unpleasant barkeep at Washington DC\u2019s Tune Inn, one regular claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlatner was just kind of dark, you\u2019d try to turn up a little conversation, and he wouldn\u2019t give anything back, no smile, no acknowledgement. Just nothing coming back that was friendly and warm,\u201d said Wayne Laugesen, an independent\u00a0journalist\u00a0and\u00a0strategic\u00a0communications\u00a0and\u00a0policy\u00a0consultant.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The Tune Inn is popular with Capitol Hill staffers and journalists. <span class=\"credit\">Joe Calvello\/X<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe just seemed like a troubled, dark, unfriendly, unhappy person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Platner, 41, who also been accused of lying about his Nazi tattoo, worked at The Tune Inn for at least five years when he lived in Washington between 2011 and 2016.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>He bartended at the popular Pennsylvania Avenue dive when he returned from a tour in Afghanistan as a Marine in 2011, while he was in his late twenties to early thirties.<\/p>\n<p>It was in those years that Platner\u2019s heavy drinking led to a DUI arrest and 2011 conviction that saw his driving license suspended for a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just sort of resented being there,\u201d said Laugesen, a former editorial page editor for the Denver Gazette and Colorado Springs Gazette. \u201cIf you asked him for a beer or a cheeseburger, it was a bother to him. He just sort of rubbed me the wrong way.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Platner reappeared behind the bar during a campaign event for his US Senate run for Maine. <span class=\"credit\">Joe Calvello\/X<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Laugesen, who at the time lived three blocks from the Tune Inn, said Platner was so disagreeable that he and his wife eventually took their business to the Hawk N Dove next door whenever they saw Platner behind the bar.<\/p>\n<p>Platner, who would hang at the Tune Inn when he wasn\u2019t on shift, often took his shirt off while drinking late at night,\u00a0according to public accounts.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, he even bragged about the skull and crossbones tattoo on his chest \u2014 widely recognized as the \u201cdeath\u2019s head\u201d symbol for the infamous Nazi SS death squads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018Oh, this is my Totenkopf,\u2019\u201d a former acquaintance told Jewish Insider in October, speaking on condition of anonymity. \u201cHe said it in a cutesy little way.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Platner has incredulously been endorsed by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and his signature Fight the Oligarchy Tour. <span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Robert F. Bukaty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Platner denied allegations this week that he\u2019d been physical with an ex-girlfriend and once locked her in a bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>The embattled Platner, who\u2019s made a slew of racist comments in since-deleted online posts, also once trashed black people for not tipping.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a 2013 Reddit post titled \u201cWhat is one question you have always wanted to ask someone of another race,\u201d he asked, \u201cWhy don\u2019t black people tip?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Platner was both a patron and bartender at the Tune Inn. <span class=\"credit\">Joe Calvello\/X<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI work as a bartender and it always amazes me how solid this stereotype is,\u201d he wrote. \u201cEvery now and again a black patron will leave a 15-20% tip, but usually it\u2019s between 0-5%. There\u2019s got to be a reason behind it, what is it?\u201d he wrote, according to the Bangor Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>But the Tune Inn might have also been what set up Platner for his US Senate run.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Platner\u2019s campaign has unraveled in the last week as abuse allegations, and details of a Nazi tattoo, have surfaced. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"\/>\n<p>The drinking hole was especially popular with Capitol Hill staffers and political journalists. It was there Platner became friends with Ryan Grim, the former HuffPost DC bureau chief.<\/p>\n<p>Grim, who founded Drop Site News in 2024, was one of Platner\u2019s early national interviews last year, helping to amplify his working-class narrative despite Platner\u2019s wealthy upbringing, as he recounted how the oyster farmer was his bartender almost every Sunday at the Tune Inn.<\/p>\n<p>It was in his bartending years that Platner, an army veteran, began struggling with PTSD, according to his campaign. He was taking classes at George Washington University, but hasn\u2019t publicly disclosed his major, and dropped out in 2016 to move back to Maine.<\/p>\n<p>His campaign did not return The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 728px 160px; gap:2px; width:908px; background:#eee; padding:2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u901a\u680f\u9876\u90e8\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u6a2a\u5e45 908x258 \u8de8\u6574\u884c -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; height:258px; background:#ff6b6b; display:grid; place-items:center;\">\r\n    <!-- JuicyAds v3.0 -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async src=\"https:\/\/poweredby.jads.co\/js\/jads.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins id=\"1114307\" data-width=\"908\" data-height=\"258\"><\/ins>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async>(adsbyjuicy = window.adsbyjuicy || []).push({'adzone':1114307});<\/script>\r\n<!--JuicyAds END-->\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u7b2c\u4e8c\u901a\u680f\uff1a728\u00d790 \u901a\u680f -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; 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