Edited sentence: Hewing closely to the Trotskyite principles of ultra leftism, Petroni, along with Gonzalez, the late Peter Camejo, formerly of the Trotskyite Socialist_Workers_Party_(United_States) and Todd Chretien of the Trotskyite International Socialist Organization sought to "out flank" the non-sectarian Green progressives by casting their political opponents as "right wing Greens" in concert with sectarian efforts to infiltrate the Green Party at the state and national level.In San Francisco in 2003, at the behest of former Supervisor and failed mayoral candidate Matt Gonzalez, Petroni led a cadre of comrades to infiltrate the San Francisco Green Party.In this sense, the leftist influx that the 2000 Ralph Nader presidential campaign instigated ultimately led to the destruction of the Green Party as a viable nexus for a progressive alternative to the Democratic Party.Petroni and Chretien successfully convinced Gonzalez to join the Green Party at a socialist conference in 2000.Petroni frequently authors slanderous attack articles under fictitious names.San Francisco Frontlines.These efforts failed at their apparent goal of infiltrating and taking over the various Green Parties, however they did manage to create such internal strife that activists focused on real world projects such as policy advocacy and viable electoral campaigns abandoned the party in droves