EXCLUSIVE: Graham Platner's Treasurer Resigns

The polarizing Democratic Senate candidate continues to lose staff

EXCLUSIVE — The president of the consulting firm advising Graham Platner’s Maine Senate bid left her role as treasurer of his campaign, according to a Federal Election Commission form filed on Friday evening, as personnel departures continue to plague the polarizing Democrat.

Victoria Perrone resigned from her position as treasurer on Tuesday, October 28, and her firm, Spruce Street, will no longer handle campaign compliance—after less than a month of working for Platner—according to a source familiar with the matter who was granted anonymity by The Judge Street Journal to provide context to the new revelation.

A spokesperson for Platner, Joe Calvello, confirmed Perrone’s departure to The Judge Street Journal.

On October 31st, the Platner campaign filed a new Statement of Organization that listed Ben Martello as treasurer. Perrone had been listed as treasurer on a prior Statement of Organization filed on October 16.

News of the shake-up—which has not been previously reported—comes less than 48 hours after Platner’s finance director Ronald Holmes publicly resigned. On Friday morning, Holmes posted on LinkedIn that his “professional standards as a campaign professional no longer fully aligned with those of the campaign.”

Perrone, Martello, and Holmes did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Platner has been hemorrhaging staff as he tries to recover from revelations of unsavory Reddit posts and a tattoo he says he later learned was a Nazi symbol (which he has since covered-up).

On October 17, his political director, Genevieve McDonald, resigned because of his online comments. Then on October 27th, Platner’s campaign manager and longtime friend, Kevin Brown, resigned after just two days on the job—saying that he and his wife had learned she was pregnant.

Perrone, whose firm earned buzz for its work with Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral run, and Brown, a veteran presidential campaign operative for Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama, were both hired to help Platner recover from his recent controversies, which have stymied his otherwise popular candidacy.

**Updated on Monday, November 3, 2025 to include confirmation from Platner’s campaign.