Asian Republicans Charge Massachusetts GOP With Discrimination
A polling place in Dorchester
Mike Deehan / GBH News
A battle over control of the state Republican party has led to claims that its leader has discriminated against Asian American voters trying to fill a vacant political position.
In a letter to national party officials, more than two dozen Vietnamese-American Republicans alleged that Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Jim Lyons led a "callous and underhanded scheme to discriminate" against Asian-American voters trying to reorganize ward committees in order to fill two open seats representing Dorchester and South Boston on the Republican State Committee, the 82-member panel that governs the party's activities.