Massachusetts’ former Attorney General Maura Healey has been sworn in as the Bay State’s first elected woman and openly LGBTQ governor — and the first lesbian governor to be elected in the United States.
“I assume this office as the first woman and first gay person ever elected governor of Massachusetts,” Healey said in her inaugural address. “But every one of us — every one of us — is a first. You may be a first-generation immigrant, choosing Massachusetts as the foundation for your American dream. You may be the first in your family to go to college, the first in your neighborhood to start a business.”
Reports the Boston Globe:
Maura Healey, who soared to victory promising to sustain the state’s economic prosperity and expand it to those it has eluded, was sworn in Thursday as Massachusetts’ 73rd governor, making history as the first woman ever elected to the post and one of the nation’s first openly lesbian governors.
In her inaugural address, Healey struck an optimistic tone about the state’s future, but also spoke about its greatest challenges: the urgency of the housing crisis and the dire state of the transit infrastructure; the pandemic that has claimed tens of thousands of lives; and a climate crisis that demands immediate response.
She envisioned a state that would continue to draw people but also make it affordable for them to stay, pitching a wide-ranging agenda to a Democratic Legislature that seemed eager to embrace it.
Read the complete Boston Globe story here.
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