Gov. Charlie Baker’s 69% approval rating places him in a three-way tie for most popular governor in the nation, according to Morning Consult. Yet, he announced in December that he would not be running for a third term to focus on stewarding the Massachusetts economy out of the pandemic, NPR reported. Though both possible Republican replacements — former state representative and U.S. Senate candidate Geoff Diehl and political newcomer and businessman Chris Doughty — are trailing Democratic nominee and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey by roughly 30 points in a recent Suffolk poll, they both told the Daily Caller News Foundation they’re not afraid of the challenge and that it’s critically important that a Republican end up in command in the state house come November.
“Massachusetts’ state legislature is among the most liberal in the nation, as is its judiciary, and Maura Healey would be one of the most liberal governors in the country,” Doughty explained to the DCNF. “Without a conservative check in the governor’s office, this would be San Francisco on steroids.”
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“She’s a big-government ideologue that wants to take away the freedoms that our state was built on,” Diehl told the DCNF.
Healey sued the Trump administration almost 100 times as attorney general and has been blamed for focusing on national culture wars instead of acting as a public servant for Massachusetts residents, according to WGBH, Boston’s local NPR channel.
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Every time Healey engaged in these “politically motivated lawsuits,” Republican attorney Dan Shores announced, meant “one more drug dealer who goes free, or one more public official who commits an act of corruption or one more senior who’s defrauded,” WBUR, another Boston-area NPR affiliate, reported.
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U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling and the left-leaning Boston Globe editorial board have further denounced Healey for insufficiently prosecuting government corruption in the overwhelmingly Democratic state government, having never charged an elected official in the state, WGBH reported.
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The Healey campaign did not react to the DCNF’s request for comment.
While both Doughty and Diehl agree that a Healey governorship would spell disaster for Massachusetts, they disagree on the man to do it.
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The Donald Trump-aligned Diehl appears to be the frontrunner at the moment, with a poll carried out in late June showing him up 52% to Doughty’s 16% among Republicans, though the figures are six weeks old and Doughty states his campaign has kicked things up a gear since then.
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