ME-SEN: Graham Platner raised money with health care lobbyists days before taking pledge not to 27

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2. Interesting

Platner’s campaign noted that fundraising events held this month and in December were not industry events, saying attendees from a range of sectors came on their own behalf and not to lobby Platner. His message of Medicare for All and breaking up monopolies has remained consistent throughout his run, the campaign noted.

Erin Oberson, a nurse at the Bangor hospital who is active in the union, said in a statement that the pledge is forward-looking, only covering donations after candidates sign on. She also said it’s focused “on large hospital corporations and Big Pharma, specifically the PACs and executives who actively fight to protect our broken, profit-driven health care system.”

So a former Congressional "aide" showed up at a Platner coffee fundraiser before he had signed the pledge?