BOSTON, Mass. — Maura Healey had never run an organization before becoming governor, and it shows. Massachusetts families are paying more and getting less from an administration defined by scandal, secrecy, and mismanagement.
Healey’s failures started long before the corner office. The Boston Globe reported in 2021 that, as attorney general, she prosecuted none of the 13 potential campaign finance cases sent to her office, including several involving Democratic officials that appeared to show serious violations like the misuse of campaign donations. A separate Globe review found her public corruption cases often “quietly end without guilty verdicts, or are dropped or dismissed.” Of 61 cases prosecuted on her watch, just 22 ended in convictions, and 12 were dropped or dismissed outright. As one former assistant attorney general put it: “When you look at the AG’s office’s priorities, you don’t see public corruption.”
As governor, the pattern has only grown: $4 million in benefits fraud, “Plaza Gate,” a $2 billion Springfield courthouse deal, catering and hotel contracts for illegal immigrants paid for by Massachusetts taxpayers, and more.
This is what one-party rule looks like: no transparency, no audits, and no one willing to ask hard questions.
From the press office of Mike Minogue.