{"id":22216,"date":"2026-05-03T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rep-dingell-says-shes-very-upset-by-platners-past-comments-on-sexual-assault\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:22:13","slug":"rep-dingell-says-shes-very-upset-by-platners-past-comments-on-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rep-dingell-says-shes-very-upset-by-platners-past-comments-on-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Dingell says she&#8217;s &#8216;very upset&#8217; by Platner&#8217;s past comments on sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said she was troubled by social media posts that the leading Democrat in Maine&rsquo;s Senate race made more than a decade ago about sexual assault.&nbsp; Last year, The Washington Post uncovered online comments that Graham Platner posted in 2013, in which the Democratic candidate downplayed the difficulties service members face when&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5861145-dingell-platner-comments-sexual-assault\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said she was troubled by social media posts that the leading Democrat in Maine&rsquo;s Senate race made more than a decade ago about sexual assault.&nbsp; Last year, The Washington Post uncovered online comments that Graham Platner posted in 2013, in which the Democratic candidate downplayed the difficulties service members face when&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}