Volunteers promoting a citizen-initiated referendum in Massachusetts have faced violence and harassment, according to a pair of lawsuits and state Republican leaders.
The referendum seeks to undo a new law giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
The state Republican party has responded with federal and state civil rights lawsuits against state attorney general Maura Healey, a state senator, and a city councilman.
Jim Lyons, chairman of Massachusetts Republican Party, told The Epoch Times that state Republicans decided to file the lawsuits—one in federal court and the other in a state court—after after agitators flipped over signature tables, grabbed and ripped up ballots and signature pages, heckled supporters, and pushed a volunteer, who is a retired police officer, up against a wall.When the Republicans asked Healey, a Democrat who is running for governor, for protection and sanctions against the agitators, Lyons said she ignored them.
