Original sentence: " In the four short years since Eder first won his breakthrough election, the Greens have gone from holding one seat on the Portland's School Committee to holding eight seats in various municipal offices today.In a post election article in Portland's online political magazine The Bollard, editor Chris Busby wrote, "...though the Greens in Portland lost Eder, they held their own on the school board, made a giant gain on the council, and darn-near unseated two popular and longstanding state legislators.Marshall and Kevin Donoghue took seats on the Portland City Council, becoming the first registered Greens to serve on that body and the two youngest members ever to serve in the council's history.Rebbecca Minnick won a seat on the Portland School Committee where she joins three sitting Greens on the nine-member committee while David A.Reflecting on his service in the Maine Legislature, Eder is quoted as saying, "We've brought the power of young people to bear on Portland politics so that now no politician running for office in this town can afford to continue to ignore the youth vote
Edited sentence: " In the four short years since Eder first won his break-through election the Greens have gone from holding one seat on the Portland's School Committee to holding eight seats in various municipal offices today.In a post election article in Portland's online political magazine The Bollard,editor Chris Busby wrote, "...though the Greens in Portland lost Eder, they held their own on the school board, made a giant gain on the council, and darn-near unseated two popular and longstanding state legislators.Marshall and Kevin Donoghue took seats on the Portland City Council becoming the first registered Greens to serve on that ostensibly non-partisan body and the two youngest members ever to serve in the council's history.Rebbecca Minnick won a seat on the Portland School Committee where she joins three sitting Greens on the nine member committee while David A.Reflecting on his service in the Maine Legislature Eder is quoted as saying, "We've brought the power of young people to bear on Portland politics so that now no politician running for office in this town can afford to continue to ignore the youth vote