Democratic strategist Morris Katz’s public mea culpa last week for his role in promoting and protecting Graham Platner didn’t sit well with at least one person familiar with the inner workings of the former candidate’s political operation.
“I don’t believe him,” Genevieve McDonald, who served as the Platner campaign’s political director until resigning last October, said of Katz. “I mean, consultants shouldn’t have main character energy. We have lost the plot when consultants are doing PR tours for themselves, for their own redemption, and that is what this felt like.”
Katz — one of the people most responsible for helping elevate Platner to national stardom — appeared on “The Ezra Klein Show” last week, saying he now believes some of the initial revelations about Platner, including his online history, should have been enough to end his Senate candidacy last year. Platner would go on to win the Democratic Senate primary in June, only to be forced out of the race weeks later after he was accused of sexual assault.