Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, who is casting himself on the campaign trail as a "working class Mainer," received a $200,000 loan from his father, a prominent local attorney, to finance his home, property records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. Platner has since said he couldn't have made the purchase without the "support of the VA," though he did not take advantage of the government-backed mortgages available to service members, according to the records. Platner's