WOBURN -- Volunteers collecting signatures in an effort to trigger a referendum that would allow registered voters to decide whether illegal immigrants are deserving of Massachusetts driver's licenses have already succeeded in triggering something else entirely different.
Democrat-aligned mobs.
"What we witnessed over the weekend was a blatant effort by the Radical Left to intimidate and harass people because these elitists don't want think the voters should be allowed to decide this," Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Jim Lyons said Monday. "Leftist mobs are working to cancel our efforts and deny us the right to collect signatures, a violation of state civil rights law, and they're receiving a boost from prominent elected Democrats."
According to a legal memo released by Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, "interference or attempted interference with these (petitioner's) rights by threats, or coercion violates the state civil rights law, which provides for money damages and attorney's fees."
"If rewarding illegal immigrants with state-issued driver's licenses is such a good thing, then what are the Democrats so afraid of?," Lyons said. "They should want the voters to be able to get to decide."
