These are strange times in the Republican Party, and not just at the national level. Call it the Trump effect or what you will, but a GOP state committeeman wants to include Black Lives Matter in an anti-hate speech resolution, equating it with right-wing hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis, Frank Phillips of the Globe reports. The committeeman, Marty Lamb of Holliston, contends Black Lives Matter is a leftist hate group, citing the group’s portrayal of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians “as a form of genocide,” Phillips writes.
The resolution has would-be Senate candidates taking sides, or ducking for cover. State Rep. Geoff Diehl has thrown his support behind Lamb’s position. Yet-to-declare candidate John Kingston has sided with Gov. Baker and others in rejecting the labeling and Beth Lindstrom responded with a statement that neither rejects nor supporters the measure but denounces all violence from the far left.
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