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Tag: Michael Lemelin

Republican tries to strike word ‘racial’ from commission that addresses racial disparities

Dan Neumann April 23, 2021

A Republican lawmaker, who came under fire earlier this month for sending an email to an Asian American woman calling COVID-19 the ‘China virus,’ attempted to remove the word “racial” from a legislative panel set up to address racial disparities. Freshman state Rep. Michael Lemelin, a Republican from Chelsea, is a member of the legislature’s…

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