Maine Republicans vandalize 8th grade class room

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The incident involved a group of Knox County Republicans who, like hundreds of others attending the Republican state convention at the Portland Expo, had gathered Friday at a nearby middle school for county caucuses.

That same Knox County contingent later would lead a surprise campaign to replace the generic Republican Party platform with a new — and much more controversial — platform embodying many of the positions espoused by Tea Party activists......

some [of the] Knox Republicans who gathered at King Middle School that Friday apparently were less than enthusiastic about the political overtones of some posters — some created by eighth-graders — and other materials they saw in the social studies classroom [the school had graciously allowed them to use].

When the teacher, Paul Clifford, returned to his classroom Monday morning, he discovered that a collage depicting the history of the labor movement was missing. In its place, someone had left a bumper sticker reading: "Working People Vote Republican."

Caucus members also apparently looked inside a closed cardboard box near Clifford’s desk that contained copies of the U.S. Constitution donated by the American Civil Liberties Union. Clifford later discovered a note left behind reading, "A Republican was here. What gives you the right to propagandize impressionable kids?"...

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/143328.html

That's right they went into an 8th grade classroom which was lent to them to form a caucus for their convention, they saw posters students made and didn't like the message so they tore them down. Then they got mad the History teacher had copies of the Constitution and was teaching his class with them. Nice.

Edited May 14, 2010 by punked

[Smallc]

You and Shady are equally pathetic with some of your threads. Seriously.

[punked]

You and Shady are equally pathetic with some of your threads. Seriously.

A much needed evil on the left or the right controls the message. A lesson we never learned from the 90s.

By the by I lived in Maine for two years, and when I first moved their the Republicans were great they were moderates who were fiscal conservatives and socially Liberal. They loved civil freedoms. By the time I left they had all become crazy. At this convention they passed one of the most right wing constitutions in the country gone are the times when "Live free or die" was their motto, now it is "please take all my Liberties as long as I get some tax cuts and they aren't from Democrats". It is something I would never have expected out of the great state of Maine.

Edited May 14, 2010 by punked

[Shady]

You and Shady are equally pathetic with some of your threads. Seriously.

Even I wouldn't have posted something as insignificant as this. Yikes!

[Shady]

It must have been a slow news day on the leftwing blogs.

[Smallc]

Even I wouldn't have posted something as insignificant as this. Yikes!

Oh, I beg to differ. You've posted things just as insignificant.

[punked]

Even I wouldn't have posted something as insignificant as this. Yikes!

You think Republicans lent a classroom for their state convention over the weekend ripping down students posters, and leaving the teacher threatening notes is insignificant? Yet some kid who broke into Sarah Palin's email to find nothing is real news gotcha.

[Smallc]

You think Republicans lent a classroom for their state convention over the weekend ripping down students posters, and leaving the teacher threatening notes is insignificant? Yet some kid who broke into Sarah Palin's email to find nothing is real news gotcha.

Yes, as I said, you two are equally pathetic when it comes to these kinds of things.