She’s standing by her man — and getting paid for it.
Presumptive Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, has pulled in nearly $30,000 since September of last year as a salaried staffer for her husband’s campaign, The Post can confirm.
As of the end of March, Gertner had been paid $28,751.59 by the Graham for Maine campaign, according to Federal Election Commission disclosures.
Gertner also got a “cell phone stipend” of $37.50 in May, according to one of the filings.
Platner’s campaign has been rocked by revelations that emerged over the weekend that he exchanged sexual messages with at least six women on the chat app Kik, frequently used for hookups. The New York Times, which first reported on Gertner’s status as a paid campaign worker, noted that she flagged the messages to a senior campaign aide.
Following the reports of Platner’s indiscretions by the Times and the Wall Street Journal, the campaign released a solo video of Gertner addressing her husband’s actions.
“It makes me really angry, disappointed, and I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip, instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on, like healthcare and education and childcare,” Gertner said in the video, which had some critics on social media likening her to a hostage.
“I admire the f–k out of him. So when there are news articles about our marriage, it’s just extra s–ty,” she went on. “Can I say that online? I hope I can.”
Platner’s profile image on Kik showed a bathroom mirror selfie with himself clad only in a towel.
The candidate’s old Reddit account had also included posts in which he scolded women to not “wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to” in order to avoid being raped.
Though she and her husband likened the reports to “gossip,” Gertner also acknowledged that “being married is hard” after the reports broke of her confiding in a campaign aide about her husband’s sexual messages to half a dozen women.
Platner’s ex-political director Genevieve McDonald, who left the Democrat’s campaign in October, said the candidate’s wife came clean about his “sexting” last August.
The couple had already addressed the issue in marriage counseling, according to Gertner. Platner described the relationship on Sunday as “very loving and very happy” despite the setback.
For his Reddit posts, Platner had similarly apologized and asked Maine voters not to judge him for “the worst thing I said on the internet, on my worst day 14 years ago.”
But as recently as 2020, he had also celebrated in other Reddit posts about Marines stationed on the West Coast being able to “get to bang LA chicks, whores in TJ, and hit up Vegas,” apparently referring to Tijuana, Mexico.
The Senate Democratic hopeful is still leading Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins in the Maine contest’s polls by 7.8 percentage points, according to the RealClearPolitics aggregator.
With the departure of Maine’s Democratic governor Janet Mills from the Democratic primary, Platner is expected to win his party’s nomination on June 9.
