At a news conference last Thursday afternoon, Ed and Tanya Carver said that, despite the accusations of Mrs. Drayton-Rogers and Mr. McKane to the contrary, they did not lie when they alleged that the current administration was promoting high-density housing in Oxford.

In support of their position, they pointed to the meeting minutes of several town boards, including the Board of Selectmen, the Economic Development Commission and the Planning and Zoning Commission.

The February 17, 2009, minutes of the EDC, for example, state that Mrs. Drayton-Rogers had forwarded information to the chairman regarding seminars addressing low-income housing.

In the same set of minutes, the EDC cites facilitation of the development of mixed-use, low-income housing on Route 67 as one of its goals for 2009.

Then, in the minutes of a selectmen's meeting on April 1, 2009, Mrs. Drayton-Rogers is cited commenting that the town had applied for a $50,000 incentive housing grant.

Mrs. Drayton-Rogers may say she's not in favor of high-density housing, but "there's a trail" of documents that indicate otherwise, Mr. Carver said.

In addition to mulling a lawsuit, the Carvers said they have complained to the American Civil Liberties Union about the removal of some of their KOG signs and to the Freedom of Information Commission relative to the blocking of KOG's access to links on the town's website.

They said, beginning last week, visitors to the KOG website no longer could obtain access to town documents that the KOG referenced to support its claims that the Drayton-Rogers administration supports high-density housing.

Brett Olbrys, vice chairman of the town's Web Site Committee, said Friday that he asked the website's host company to block KOG's links to the town's website on learning from "various people," via e-mails, that it was employing those links.

He said Mrs. Drayton-Rogers and Mr. McKane were not aware that he had taken that measure.

He said the action was in keeping with the committee's terms and conditions posted on its website that prohibit third parties from linking to the website's contents.

Mr. Olbrys said, while some parties have been given permission to provide links to the town's website material for legitimate reasons, KOG did not ask for permission.

Noting that the minutes of meetings are provided on the town's website as a courtesy, anyone who wants to look at the final approved minutes should view them at Town Hall.

Moreover, because the town pays for a certain amount of website usage, it could incur additional charges if many people link to the website, Mr. Olbrys said.

In an apparent response to a query by the ACLU about the KOG signs, Town Attorney Francis Teodosio said in an October 28 letter to the ACLU that no elected official ever directed the town's zoning enforcement officer to remove KOG signs, as the KOG apparently has suggested.

On recent accusations by Mrs. Drayton-Rogers and Mr. McKane that KOG had violated state election laws, the Carvers acknowledged that they had made a couple of technical mistakes on their Political Action Committee application form but were now fully compliant.

Mrs. Drayton-Rogers had alleged that the KOG violated state election laws by indicating it was petitioning for a single referendum question on affordable housing on Election Day when there was no referendum scheduled on Election Day.

She also charged that they accepted a cash contribution of more than $100 and also favored one party over another at an October 17 rally it organized to discuss high-density housing.

Mr. Carver said he had been in contact with the State Election Enforcement Commission and was told the application errors were amendable by simply checking the appropriate boxes on the PAC application form and by returning a cash donation of $500 and having the donor write a check, which the Carvers said they did.

On the issue of the October 17 rally the couple had at their place of business on Christian Street, the Carvers said they felt justified in turning away Mr. McKane and Mr. Teodosio, both Democrats, whom they knew had a different position on the issue of affordable housing than KOG, while allowing David Haversat, the Republican candidate for first selectman, to attend and to address attendees.

They said the literature they distributed about the rally clearly indicated that those who were against affordable housing were welcome.

While Attorney Teodosio maintained that laws prohibit a PAC from promoting the success or defeat of any candidate and cannot side with any party, the Carvers maintain that they were not endorsing any candidate and did, in fact, have Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters in attendance at their rally.

Mrs. Carver said she asked Mr. McKane and Mr. Teodosio to leave the premises because she perceived them to be hostile.

"If I feel threatened, I can take a position," Mrs. Carver said.