City voters reject MassGOP candidate
Republican voters in the First Suffolk District have rejected the candidacy of a state committee contender called out for her “hateful rhetoric.”
Lori Kaufmann, who according to social media postings she apparently authored is an antisemite, lost her bid to be a MassGOP committeewoman to Elizabeth Hinds-Ferrick, a doctorally educated assistant director at the state Department of Transitional Assistance.
“Election results are below. I didn’t win, but I think I did pretty well with the entire regime pitted against me! I’m going to keep the energy going, though. Thanks for all your support everyone — especially the haters,” she wrote on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Despite her frequently stated favorable regard for Nazism, and her declaration that as of Super Tuesday she would “likely get voted into office,” whereupon she would set about banning same-sex marriage, making transgenderism illegal, and “exile all Jews,” Kaufmann was still able to secure the support of 1,475 Republican voters, or 37.4% of the vote.
“Don’t forget I’ll likely get voted into office on March 5. Long term goals are to ban same sex marriage (never should have been legalized) and trans will be illegal. Yes illegal. I will also exile all Jews,” she wrote on February 25.
Kaufmann’s candidacy was roundly rejected by the MassGOP, which had previously banned her from joining party events due to her “reprehensible” behavior.
“Ms. Kauffman’s hateful rhetoric was addressed via a resolution by the Massachusetts Republican State Committee on December 15, 2023. Committee Member Marty Lamb introduced the resolution and it passed unanimously. The MassGOP has NO tolerance for discrimination,” they wrote on Twitter.
Noting a rise in antisemitic incidents both internationally and domestically, in December the party passed a resolution that declared the MassGOP “strongly condemns the prejudice and antisemitic statements made by Lori Kauffman.”
Voters in each state district select one man and one woman to represent party constituents before the party committee. Timothy J. Smyth Jr. won the First Suffolk committeeman’s seat on Tuesday.