The initial New York Times story on troubling behavior should have been enough.” But before Platner formally accepted the nomination, The New York Times, Politico and CNN reported that at least two women accused Platner of sexually assaulting them years earlier while they dated, which the candidate denied. Unconventional, yet authentic candidates, “will have said things that they will have regretted,” Katz told The Wall Street Journal shortly before the primary, when asked about Platner’s Reddit posts. Katz flips on vetting process“Fight is not a vetting agency,” Katz told The Times, referring to the political consulting firm where he works. Before the primary, Katz told the Journal, “we have a formal vetting process” and “we take the vet seriously.”