Graham Platner — the Democrat seeking to oust Susan Collins and (finally!) flip a Senate seat in Maine — recently highlighted MVP partner the Maine Labor Climate Council (MLCC) and the work they are doing to organize white, working-class mobile home residents.
MLCC’s organizing is, in Platner’s words, “building robust, organized parks that can build power” and take on the companies that are buying up mobile home parks, raising rents, and taking control away from residents. Working with MLCC, these residents are now leading campaigns for rent stabilization and the eventual community purchase of the mobile home parks in which they live.
MVP’s partners are providing a blueprint for Democratic candidates to actually fight for what working-class people need.
This is a prime example of how MVP’s partners are providing a blueprint for Democratic candidates to actually fight for what working-class people need. This is not tried-and-true-blue New York City or Philadelphia. This is Maine — a state that has had a Republican Senator for nearly 30 years, but where the leading Democratic candidate to flip that Senate seat has openly criticized the Democratic Party establishment and still has a genuine shot at winning in November. File under “Embolden the Democratic Party.”
