Todos Somo Arizona (TSAZ) is a coalition of groups including Jobs with Justice, English for Action, Fuerza Laboral, Comite de Inmigrantes, RI Interfaith Coalition, 32BJSEIU RI, AFCS, Estudios Biblicos and ONA, that is holding a series of actions at the State House to keep attention focused on the issue and on Tuesday activists were loud and their presence was felt, even in the midst of a Second Amendment Rights rally happening at roughly the same time.

At least 400 2nd Amendment Coalition members turned out to pressure the House Judiciary Committee on a raft of bills being heard concerning guns. Nearly 100 members of the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence (RICAGV) turned out to have their say on the bills as well.

This lead to some friction, like when former candidate for Mayor of Warwick Stacia Huyler decided to chide the Licenses for All coalition for being too loud. The irony of a Second Amendment activist complaining about people using their First Amendment rights was lost on Huyler.

The issue of granting driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants is not going away. Everyone, regardless of status, deserves to be allowed to function in our society, and until this becomes the law in Rhode Island, these protests will continue.

Here’s all of this year’s coverage of the issue from RI Future:

• Licenses for All rally rocks opening session at State House
• Progressive Dems urge Raimondo to issue executive order on driver’s licenses
• Two protests rock State House during Governor’s budget address
• Undocumented workers pay $33.4 million in RI taxes and they need drivers licenses
• I used to live in fear: Driver’s licenses and the undocumented
• Bishop Tobin supports driver’s licenses for undocumented workers
• Full video: House hears testimony over driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants
• Driver’s license debate is driven by nativism

I was wrong.

The person who incoherently and arbitrarily started a fight and threatened me via late-night Facebook messenger out of nowhere was Stacia Petri, candidate for mayor of Warwick.

It continues on like this, and one needs only refer to the previously recounted exchange to see the extreme lengths the Warwick Republican mayoral candidate went to insult, berate and disparage me and anyone who shares my socio-political viewpoint.

She continued by telling me she was a lobbyist for taxpaying citizens (albeit, an unregistered lobbyist) and that she would “see me at the state house, asshole.” When I asked her directly if that was a threat, she responded by asking, “do you feel threatened? Good.” She then went on to insinuate that only illegal aliens, as sanctioned by “idiot liberals” could be drug addicts. when I expressed confusion at this statement and told her I had no idea who she was and nobody cared what she thought, she assured me that they would.

It was only recently that I came across a Facebook-noted press release announcing her candidacy for mayor of Warwick. According to the release:

“Warwick has always been a special place to live—a place to raise a family…a place to retire…a place to call home, but it’s all changing for the worse.”

She continues, as quoted in the release, to say:

“The condition of our city and our schools speak for themselves. If Warwick continues on the Mayor’s reckless approach, the urban decay will only grow worse. My administration will set a new direction by listening to the concerns of Warwick citizens and identifying the issues that are most problematic to them. I will confront these issues directly and propose solutions so Warwick is prosperous for all residents.”

Is that all residents? Or is that all residents except for “idiot liberals” or “illegals” who are encouraged by those liberals to be intravenous drug users? The press release goes on to say:

She was also brought to tears watching the elderly beg and plead to stop the double-digit increases in water and sewer rates when they barely have enough to spend on groceries.

But let’s remember, this was the woman who, after reading an account of another mayoral candidate, this one a Democrat for the City of Providence, using the legislative process to propose a sensible means by which to fund non-violence education and implementation statewide that, in no way, shape or form infringes upon one’s second amendment rights, insinuated that I needed a copy of the Cliff’s Notes to Constitution for Dummies. Yet, we’re to believe she weeps for the elderly.

My sense is that anyone who randomly spits venomous verbal assaults on strangers via Facebook messenger in the dead of night for exercising his right to opine on legislative hearings in an informed manner, may not have the temperament to handle the highest executive office of Rhode Island’s second most populous city.

Voters, do you feel threatened? Good.