Note Found In Vandalized Classroom: "A Republican Was Here."

[paft.livejournal.com]

Boston Herald.com

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?' according to an account in the Portland Press Herald.

A public school in Maine allowed a contingent of Republicans to meet in their classrooms over a weekend. The result was a rifled and vandalized classroom and stolen materials.

It’s nice to know that the Maine Republican Party had the grace to apologize:

Villagesoup:

The Maine Republican Party does not condone the destruction of property nor does it encourage the lack of tolerance that these people demonstrated. Over 900 other people attended these caucuses without incident and I hope that the actions of few do not tarnish the image of many. We appreciate the hospitality of the staff from the King Middle School and hope to work with them again in the future. We sincerely apologize to the faculty and student body at King Middle School.

The problem is, that same contingent rooting around and looting the classroom – the Knox County Republicans -- is influential enough to have replaced the Republican Party Platform with one more to the liking of Tea Party activists.

In short, the vandals are the ones writing the party platform in that state.

But they're just a fringe group right? I mean, just because they're actually writing the Maine Republican Party platform doesn't mean anything. Right?

Comments

[paft.livejournal.com]

Really? Did somebody apologize for doing it and return items stolen from the car when, in fact, they'd not vandalized the car or stolen anything from it?

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Where did I say they were equal? I just said one reminded me of the other. While I may have known that would have been inferred, that's not what I wrote.
Also you didn't answer the question. (sheesh I sound like you) Do you have a link for something you wrote in the early aftermath of the Duke Lacrosse scandal?

[paft.livejournal.com]

g:Where did I say they were equal? I just said one reminded me of the other.

Why would a hoax remind you of a non-hoax?

g: While I may have known that would have been inferred, that's not what I wrote.

??? Your above statement makes no sense. You posted the comparison knowing that a similarity would be inferred. That's the entire point of posting comparisons. Why, then object to the fact that I made an inference you knew would be made?

I didn't write about the Duke Lacrosse case, mainly because I felt uncomfortable posting about a case I knew little about. If you want my posts on cases involving rape and accused rape, I posted briefly about the Roman Polanski case (actually a post about why I was reluctant to post about it) and about recent cases like the Mohler case in Missouri and the Tonya Craft case in Georgia. I'm not sure what you imagine that will prove, however.