Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced her run for governor early this morning in a short, upbeat video on Twitter about her background and her hopes and goals for the future of the state.
If elected governor, Healey would become one of just three openly LGBTQ elected governors in the United States, along with Jared Polis of Colorado and Kate Brown of Oregon.
First elected AG in 2014 and re-elected in 2018, Healey, as the only statewide official running for governor is now the presumptive front-runner, noted The Boston Globe late yesterday. The Globe article also noted how as AG Healey has successfully and repeatedly “used her platform to take on Donald Trump and corporate villains like opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma.”
Reports MassLive today:
Healey shattered barriers as the country’s first openly gay attorney general, and as recently as last week, she made headlines announcing a major settlement with student loan company Navient that will impact more than 1,500 Massachusetts borrowers.
In the Democratic race for governor, Healey faces two female candidates, propelling a path for a historic race that in some ways parallels last year’s Boston mayoral campaign, in which two female candidates of color squared off to helm the city.
But Healey, whose campaign war chest exceeds $3.6 million, now emerges as the frontrunner against state Sen. Sonia Chang-Díaz and Harvard professor Danielle Allen.
“Massachusetts, I know the years of the pandemic have been really hard,” Healey said at the start of her campaign launch video. “But I see a state that’s coming together with courage, grit and caring to do great things. From Worcester to Woburn, New Bedford to North Adams, Massachusetts will come back stronger than ever — because we’re working together.”
Read the complete MassLive article here.
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