By now, everyone has heard that the teabaggers took over the Maine Republican Party last weekend at the state convention, adopting a far right-wing, extreme platform.

In addition, Maine GOPers spent the weekend trashing one of Portland’s schools:

The Republican State Convention was held at the Portland Exposition Building, which is on Park Avenue, near the middle school. Party members from Knox County caucused in a classroom used by eighth-grade social studies teacher Paul Clifford. When Clifford returned to school on Monday, he found that a favorite poster about the U.S. labor movement had been taken and replaced with a bumper sticker that read, “Working People Vote Republican.” Later, Clifford learned that his classroom had been searched. Republicans who had attended the convention called Principal Mike McCarthy to complain about “anti-American” things they saw there, including a closed box containing copies of the U.S. Constitution that were published by the American Civil Liberties Union. Maine Republican Party leaders have issued a written apology to King students and teachers.

These GOP/teabaggers are out-of-control.

Portland is my hometown and while I don’t know Paul Clifford, I do know people who do. I’m told that he’s a great guy. And, sounds it.

For the record, I did not go to King Middle School. I went to Jack.