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  Maine Republicans Adopt Tea Party Platform
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Last EditedRP  May 10, 2010 10:57am
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News DateMonday, May 10, 2010 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionAn overwhelming majority of delegates to the Maine Republican convention tonight voted to scrap the the proposed party platform and replace it with a document created by a group of Tea Party activists.

The official platform for the Republican Party of Maine is now a mix of right-wing fringe policies, libertarian buzzwords and outright conspiracy theories.

Dan Billings, who has served as an attorney for the Maine GOP, called the new platform "wack job pablum" and "nutcase stuff."
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