Call It Class Struggle: How Politics Went Too Far

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Some called it a political convention. But in reality, it was where worlds collided.

Late Friday afternoon, as Maine's Republican State Convention fanned out from the Portland Expo to county caucuses at nearby King Middle School, GOP loyalists from Knox County found themselves directed to Classroom 110 - the domain of eighth-grade social studies teacher Paul Clifford.

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Call It Class Struggle: How Politics Went Too Far

Now this, in case you haven't heard by now, was no ordinary county delegation.

The insurgent Knox County conservatives, heavily steeped in the Tea Party Movement, would manage by the time the convention was over to replace a run-of-the-mill party platform with a new set of planks imported from, well, another political pl...

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