{"id":329822,"date":"2025-12-03T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/epa-employees-challenge-firings-for-signing-dissent-letter\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:20:09","slug":"epa-employees-challenge-firings-for-signing-dissent-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=329822","title":{"rendered":"EPA Employees Challenge Firings for Signing Dissent Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), which endorsed Platner on Wednesday, commissioned the new poll, which showed him polling at 58% compared to Mills’ 38%.<\/p>\n

Nancy Zdunkewicz, a pollster with Z to A Polling, which conducted the survey on behalf of the PCCC, said the poll represented “really impressive early consolidation” for Platner, with the primary election still six months away.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlatner isn\u2019t just leading in the Democratic primary. He\u2019s leading by a lot, 20 points\u201458% are supporting him,\u201d Zdunkewicz told<\/a> Zeteo<\/em>. \u201cOnly 38% are supporting Mills. There are very few undecided voters or weak supporters for Mills to win over at this point in the race.”<\/p>\n

Platner has consistently spoken to packed rooms across Maine since launching his campaign in August, promoting a platform that is unapologetically focused on delivering affordability and a better quality of life for Mainers.<\/p>\n

He supports expanding<\/a> the popular Medicare<\/a> program to all Americans; drew raucous applause at an early rally by declaring<\/a>, \u201cOur taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza<\/a>“; and has spoken in support of breaking up<\/a> tech giants and a federal war crimes<\/a> investigation<\/a> into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Mills entered<\/a> the race after Democratic leaders including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/a> (D-NY) urged her to. She garnered national attention earlier this year for standing up<\/a> to President Donald Trump<\/a> when he threatened federal funding for Maine over the state’s policy of allowing students to play on school athletic teams that correspond with their gender.<\/p>\n

But the PCCC survey found that when respondents learned details about each candidate, negative critiques of Mills were more damaging to her than Platner’s old Reddit posts and tattoo.<\/p>\n

Zdunkewicz disclosed Platner’s recent controversy to the voters she surveyed, as well as his statements about how his views have shifted in recent years, and found that 21% of voters were more likely to back him after learning about his background. Thirty-nine percent said they were less likely to support him.<\/p>\n

The pollster also talked to respondents about the fact that establishment Democrats pushed Mills, who is 77, to enter the race, and about a number of bills she has vetoed as governor, including a tax on the wealthy, a bill to set up a tracking system for rape kits, two bills to reduce prescription drug costs, and several bills promoting workers<\/a>‘ rights.<\/p>\n

Only 14% of Mainers said they were more likely to vote for Mills after learning those details, while 50% said they were less likely to support her.<\/p>\n

At The Lever<\/em>, Luke Goldstein on Wednesday reported<\/a> that Mills’ vetoes have left many with the “perception that she\u2019s mostly concerned with business interests,” as former Democratic Maine state lawmaker Andy O’Brien said. Corporate interests gave more than $200,000 to Mills’ two gubernatorial campaigns.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Mills struck down a labor-backed bill to allow farm workers to discuss their pay with one another without fear of retaliation. Last year, she blocked a bill to set a minimum wage<\/a> for farm laborers, opposing a provision that would have allowed workers to sue their employers.<\/p>\n

She also vetoed a bill banning noncompete agreements and one that would have banned anti-union tactics by corporations.<\/p>\n

“In previous years,” Goldstein reported, “she blocked efforts to stop employers from punishing employees who took state-guaranteed paid time off, killed a permitting reform bill to streamline offshore wind developments because it included a provision mandating union jobs, and vetoed a modest labor bill that would have required the state government to merely study the issue of paper mill workers being forced to work overtime without adequate compensation.”<\/p>\n

Speaking to PCCC supporters on Wednesday, Platner suggested<\/a> the new polling shows that many Mainers agree with the central argument of his campaign: “We need to build power again for working people, both in Maine and nationally.\u201d<\/p>\n

The survey, he said, \u201clays clear what our theory is, which is that we are not going to defeat Susan Collins<\/a> running the same exact kind of playbook that we\u2019ve run in the past\u2014which is an establishment politician supported by the power structures, supported by Washington<\/a>, DC, coming up to Maine and trying to run a kind of standard race… We are really trying to build a grassroots movement up here.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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