Bostonians, who have long faced tough hurdles to secure gun licenses compared to suburban peers, are pressing state lawmakers to ease those restrictions as new gun reform legislation advances on Beacon Hill this season. And, increasingly, the calls on behalf of expanding Second Amendment rights are coming from men and women of color who live in Dorchester and Mattapan. State
The first-term party boss faced some opposition in the first meeting of the newly elected committee, but at the end was ratified to continue at her job by a vote of 47 – 25.
As a Black woman from Fields Corner, Elizabeth Hinds-Ferrick may not be the typical champion of the Republican Party, but if her instincts are correct, the new state committeewoman will soon draw more and more of her neighbors to the GOP. She threw her hat into the political ring for the first time on Super Tuesday and came out the winner of the Republican State Committee seat
The race to represent a Boston district on the Massachusetts Republican State Committee shows how the party's "big tent" is expanding in an ugly direction