Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez's recent statement that every Democrat should be pro-abortion without exception reinforces why I bucked my family's political heritage by registering as a Republican.
Perez issued a fatwa declaring that every Democrat should be pro-abortion, no exceptions. He imposed this litmus test under pressure from the National Abortion Rights Action League after Bernie Sanders endorsed a nominally pro-life candidate for mayor of Omaha, former Nebraska legislator Heath Mello. Mello is a Catholic Democrat who had voted for several bills to restrict abortion in the state legislature. Perez initially joined Sanders in supporting Mello's campaign but then opposed it after encountering the wrath of NARAL.
NEWTON — A key figure behind a ballot question that would repeal a law allowing people who say they identify with the opposite sex to use the public bathrooms and changing rooms they prefer says he was spat on and cursed at by an unidentified person who crashed a private event.
William Gillmeister, the policy and financial director for the Renew Massachusetts Coalition, told New Boston Post his group booked Sichuan Garden, a Chinese restaurant on Walnut Street in Newton Highlands, on Sunday afternoon. Gillmeister said he spotted the individual removing his group's signs from the front of the restaurant and confronted the person.
