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.
The South Shore town's voters rejected a warrant article that would have instructed local police not to assist federal immigration authorities. The hotly debated measure failed, 101-185.
