The gay community is publicizing Jordan Wood as a logical alternative to Graham Platner, touting his sexual preference as an asset.
“I am told that a gay man can’t win,” Wood said as he announced his candidacy. “Cynics are wrong.”
He was quoted by the website LGBTQ Nation, which headlined his being gay could help him “become Maine’s next U.S. senator.”
Wood announced for the Senate last year but instead opted to run for the U.S. House after Jared Golden said he wasn’t running for re-election.
After losing that race Wood decided to re-enter the Senate race once Graham Platner withdrew following an ex-girlfriend’s accusing him of rape.
“I have been told that I am too progressive, that I am too young, that a gay man can’t win,” Wood said in a statement posted to social media. “These cynics are wrong. They have been wrong all our lives. They remain wrong today. I’m asking for your support to take back control of our party and our country.”
The Democrat party is now scrambling to replace Platner with a viable candidate to beat five-term GOP Sen. Susan Collins “and a gay man is fighting to be that candidate,” writes LGBTQ deputy editor Molly Sprayregen.
Wood, former chief of staff for a California congresswoman, told LGBTQ Nation that “our country is in a moment of crisis and the future of our democracy is at stake.”
We have much to be concerned about and it’s not you being gay
I don’t care what his alphabet letters are. Conservatives only apply.
They are coming out of the woodwork. And just where is this alphabet nation? Can someone from another nation run in Maine?
We Mainers have enough problems without you bragging about your sexual preference. Get lost.
Wood, former chief of staff for a California congresswoman. Who Pelosi?
Yeah Right just another Blow In.
We need and want a real Mainer that knows what hard work is, what common sense means!
No it’s not a swear word either!
Nobody cares that he’s gay. “Progressive” is absolutely disqualifying.
Heaven help me, but the first thing I thought of looking at this picture was another young gay man above a body of water…
Back 1984, Charlie Howard wasn’t thrown into the Kenduskeag because he was gay — there was a lot more involved that never came out, and three decades later, perhaps the best punishment for the perpetrators was the sexual orientation of their children, but Heaven help me, the first thing I thought of was gay man above body of water….
The Democrats are gonna have more fun with this convention than they did with the Chicago one back in 1968.
Then as now, the coalition that had behind one candidate is splintering into multiply exclusive candidates we’re not going to be able to unify the coalition — and the young people are going to physically fight over this.
The idiocy continues. His platform is that he’s gay ? Who gives a fuk,
Nancy, his constituency, no more his cult, does.
Very much does.
Do you see why I’m saying “Chicago ‘68 Part Deux.”
Why is his being gay the story?
He’s running for the U.S. Senate. Judge him on his positions and qualifications, not his sexual orientation.
This obsession with turning ordinary facts into outrage bait is exactly what’s wrong with so much political media.
That will be a cold day in hell.
‘MAGA is dead’.
“At the Ron Paul Institute’s Spring Conference in Texas, former US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene declared, “MAGA is dead. Where do we go from here?”
The GOP is on the verge of open warfare as MTG, Tucker Carlson, and others declare they no longer identify with the Party.
Meanwhile the Democratic Party is in a panic over the collapse in support among its rank and file for current US Middle East policies. A younger and more radical group of candidates is cleaning out the old guard in primary after primary…”
Many of recent snipers and mass killers including Charlie Kirk’s assassin share LGBTQ lifestyles despite a thorough coverup by our diabolical mainstream media.Not sure what percentage of the population LGBTQ folks currently occupy but whatever it is is far too many. The party, the state and the nation needs to get back to the basics rather than giving a minority lifestyle even more power. That will take real courage.
What are your QUALIFICATIONS, dipstick?
Dipstick and lipstick baby, vote for me.
Pitcher or catcher?
Inquiring minds will want to know.
What about Lewiston’s frumpy mayor Carl Sheline???? Jordan Wood’s not gay. His boyfriend is.
Isn’t this the same “ man “ who couldn’t take the late night important phone call “ because he had a nineteen month old at home ? “
He can be a queer candidate , or he can be a mommy . Obviously he can’t do both .
Maybe he should go back to California .
JD Vance wears eyeliner. So gay!
PS
Homosexuality is a sin. It’s actually not okay. Bunch of secular idiots in this thread.
Wood is (or was) Katie Porker’s Chief of Staff. I wonder if HE was the one who told her to dump the hot pan of mashed potatoes on her husband’s head?!
MAGA is alive and well. Bat sh*t crazy MTG, Tucker, and Candice can pound all the sand on OOB.
‘A Gay Man Could Become Maine’s Next U.S. Senator’
Should this be a required qualification? Or is this a required qualification?
Is this “identity” politics? If so, why?
How can the constituents have any confidence of governance with this as a prerequisite?
How is this presented on one’s resume?
Sir the fact that you are a democrat is why I will never vote for you. Not that you are gay. I really dont care about the gay part.
If you can’t figure out what the purpose of sex is and who you’re supposed to engage in it with then maybe you should do something else. The more we accept deviant behavior the more amoral we become and that comes with a price.
Sure he would! Just look at the great job Chris Pappas has done for NH!
@eyes roll@ Whatever. Why not go whole hog and pick a trans she-male?
Being gay is a sin. It is written about in the Bible. Homosexuals are called infidel in the New Testament. No, not by Muslims. By Christians. Muslims didn’t exist at that time.
I find it laughable that all the dumb Trump supporters think embracing infidel is in your face at Islam. Muslims only call you that cause you’re queer’s.
2 Corinthians
1 Timothy.
Christianity is older than Islam.
The queer Greek Christian’s were being lectured on their relationship with boys in the gymnasiums. They were told to go home to their wives and quit acting like infidels.
Queer is wrong headed. Stop defending homosexuality!!! Dump your queer friends!!
Idiots
Please, like king isn’t as flaming as they come. His closet is twice the size as grahams.
Great. Another Mayor Pete.