A Massachusetts’s attorney general could turn her state’s top seat blue in November and make history in the process.
The heavily favored Maura Healey, is expected to win the race for governor of Massachusetts this fall.
If she does, she’ll become the state’s first female governor and will be among the first openly-out lesbian governors in the country.
51-year old Healey won more than 85% of the vote in the Democratic primary Tuesday, for which she had just one opponent, who remained on the ballot despite dropping out of the race in June.
Massachusetts’ current governor, Charlie Baker, is a Republican, but much more moderate than most of the party base, having supported abortion rights and the impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
Even though he was popular in his state, Baker faced a tough primary challenge from former state Rep. Geoff Diehl, who has been endorsed by Trump and has echoed some of the former president’s talking points about election fraud.
Baker made an announcement in December that he would not be running for reelection, paving the way for Healey to face Diehl come November.
So far, polls are in Healey’s favor, with recent numbers showing the Democrat leading the Republican by 18 points.
As attorney general, Healey has made a name for herself by repeatedly suing the Trump administration, pitting her against the former president over issues that ranged from water quality to immigrant separation policies. In most instances, Healey’s office prevailed in the suits.
In a Dec. 2020 interview with Vanity Fair, Healey touched on the more-than 100 suits state attorneys general filed against the Trump administration, saying, “I don’t think you can overstate how much energy and effort it took to hold the line against the Trump administration that was doing things so entirely unprecedented and in violation of so many norms and the rule of law.”
She continued: “What a sad commentary that in order to defend the Constitution, to protect the rule of law, we found ourselves taking Donald Trump and his administration to court over 100 times, but it was absolutely necessary.”
“The good news is we won over 80% of those cases … The numbers are staggering, but when you have a president looking to gut health care or roll back environmental protections or reverse years of progress and reproductive freedom, that’s why it’s been really important for us to be active,” she told Vanity Fair. “I’m fortunate that as a state attorney general, I was able to do something.”
Do we really care that she is the first openly gay who may become governor? Race, gender, religion and sexually orientation shouldn’t matter. But our media and third world leaders make those the only qualifications they matter.
Yep
Who cares ,and i wouldn’t if she wasn’t a member of a Communist party the Democrats that is !
I’m a very conservative woman and I could careless what she does behind closed doors as long as it’s not in the Govenor‘s office. Just do your job for all people of MA to the best of your ability. Leave your sexual preference out of it.
MAKE SURE YOU ANNOUNCE SHES OPENLY GAY. BECAUSE IM AN OPENLY STRAIGHT COMMENTOR. Im so tired of this BS. I dont care if shes gay. But why the fcuk do we always have to hear it?
I don’t condone homosexuality ,but if that’s you’re thing don’t tell me about it , it’s an abomination in our creator’s eye’s . an I will never contributed too it by voting for someone that I know is , it’s not natural sexually . our creator made male and female to be together. not male and male, are female and female .but you’re sexuality and who you want too have sex with is you’re business not mine so keep it too your self , I am so sick of these groups pushing their way of life on other human beings .
before you know it it will be legal to have sex with children, Lord help us all . Its a shame how far the human race has fallen .
I couldn’t agree more this absolutely discuss me!!
Who gives a fuck if she is gay, unless she’s a typical democrat moron, then the label should be helpful to deflect criticism of her being an idiot, althouth Kamela and Joe seem to be straight and the media gives them a pass.
I hate the North East, it’s full of perverts and fools.
Can somebody tell me why her sexual preference should matter? What matters to me is she is a Democrat and they are ruining our republic and I wouldn’t vote for her if she thought she was a unicorn.
Mass. is set to be screwed again. Could care less about her sexual orientation, being a dem who doesn’t understand the Constitution is the problem. Remember, you get what you vote for.