g: 1. "The problem is, that same contingent rooting around and looting the classroom – the Knox County Republicans -- is influential enough to have..."

...to have replaced the Maine Republican Party platform with one more to their liking. Are you saying this isn't true?

g: 2: So your premise is that the included a "couple of hoodlums" who were able to rifle the class and steal a poster without the other members noticing anything wrong?