2022 Massachusetts Gubernatorial race: debates and news coverage

OnTheIssues.org excerpts:  (click on issues for details)

Abortion     Maura Healey: I'm always going to stand up for abortion access.     Maura Healey: Ensure access to abortion, contraception, STI testing.

Budget & Economy     Ben Downing: We have widening economic and racial gaps in Massachusetts.     Ben Downing: We're left weaker by tax cuts for wealthy & budget cuts.     Ben Downing: Encourage savings with prize linked savings accounts.     Danielle Allen: East-west rail clearly important; definitely a high priority.     Maura Healey: Encourage entrepreneurism with Office of Economic Assistance.

Civil Rights     Ben Downing: Support anti-discrimination laws for transgender people.     Danielle Allen: State has taken too long where leadership is open to all.     Geoff Diehl: Supports gay GOP candidate criticized by committee member.     Maura Healey: We put an equity lens on everything that we do.     Maura Healey: Was lead counsel challenging Defense of Marriage Act.     Maura Healey: The first openly gay state attorney general in U.S. history.     Maura Healey: Include health equity as part of Health Care Cost Trends.     Maura Healey: End the ban on LGBTQ+ blood donations.     Sonia Chang-Diaz: Social equity loans for those impacted by cannabis arrests.

Corporations     Maura Healey: Allow communities to enact local rent stabilization policies.

Crime     Geoff Diehl: Police should not be condemned, but supported.     Maura Healey: Increase penalties for hate crimes, revamp current law.     Maura Healey: Supported 2020 reform bill repealing mandatory minimums.     Sonia Chang-Diaz: Wrote law banning chokeholds & racial profiling.

Drugs     Maura Healey: Regular pot users likely to try more dangerous drugs.     Sonia Chang-Diaz: Make retail cannabis market accessible to smaller players.

Education     Maura Healey: Pandemic requires additional support for public schools.     Maura Healey: Opposed ballot measure expanding number of charter schools.     Sonia Chang-Diaz: Young people shouldn't have to carry decades of student debt.

Energy & Oil     Ben Downing: As state senator, focused on clean energy & climate change.     Ben Downing: Transition to clean energy economy means jobs.     Ben Downing: There is no time or excuse for incrementalism.     Ben Downing: Clean energy push left out communities of color & low-income.     Ben Downing: Increase solar net metering cap, ensure future growth.     Geoff Diehl: A vocal critic of the Transportation Climate Initiative.     Maura Healey: Will harness all the levers in combating the climate crisis.     Maura Healey: Create a cabinet-level Climate Chief & electrify everything.

Environment     Maura Healey: Expects nuclear power plan to obey rules on reactor water.

Families & Children     Maura Healey: Common Start: free child care for lowest-income families.

Government Reform     Danielle Allen: Democracy is about working, deciding, acting together.     Geoff Diehl: Opposes permanent mail-in voting as open to fraud.     Maura Healey: Pass VOTES Act; same day voter registration.     Sonia Chang-Diaz: Signed letter urging federal action on voting rights.     Geoff Diehl: Forensic audit of 2020 Massachusetts election results .

Gun Control     Ben Downing: Supports AG on enforcing state assault weapons law.     Maura Healey: Hold gun dealers & manufacturers accountable for marketing.

Health Care     Danielle Allen: Pandemic was last straw; commonwealth ready for change.     Danielle Allen: COVID: Mandatory vaccinations for elderly, prison workers.     Maura Healey: ACA remains the law of the land; peoples' lives depend on it.     Maura Healey: Treat mental health care as seriously as other health care.     Sonia Chang-Diaz: COVID: universal masking in schools, indoor public spaces.

Immigration     Geoff Diehl: Get undocumented processed as citizens as quickly as we can.     Maura Healey: Fought Muslim travel ban & family separation at border.     Maura Healey: End state involvement in federal immigration matters.     Sonia Chang-Diaz: Proposed path for in-state college tuition for undocumented.

Jobs     Ben Downing: Need emergency paid sick time, for minorities & women.     Geoff Diehl: COVID: State should have furloughed non-essential employees.

Principles & Values     Ben Downing: Grief and loss teach empathy, perspective, fierce urgency.     Ben Downing: Lived in communities that had to fight to get resources.     Ben Downing: We need a sense of urgency from leadership to address issues.     Ben Downing: Beacon Hill postpones & relies on Mass. exceptionalism.     Ben Downing: Voters expect more: you have to earn their trust.     Danielle Allen: It shouldn't be every person for themselves anymore.     Danielle Allen: Committed to building blocks of social infrastructure.     Danielle Allen: Will bring experience from academia to governing.     Geoff Diehl: We're looking to re-empower the individual in Massachusetts.     Geoff Diehl: Would rather leave national politics out of governor's race.     Maura Healey: A proud progressive but not interested in labels.     Maura Healey: Briefly played pro basketball, went on to law school.     Sonia Chang-Diaz: My North Star is: "Are we getting results?".

Tax Reform     Danielle Allen: Better targeted investment than two-month sales tax holiday.     Maura Healey: Defends tax cut as imperative; cuts $375M from budget.

Technology     Maura Healey: Prioritize electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

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Next election in 2022; contenders: MA 2022 Gubernatorial debate: Incumbent Charlie Baker(R, retiring) vs.Lt.Gov.Karyn Polito(R, retiring) vs.Attorney General Maura Healey(D) vs.Former State Rep. Geoff Diehl(R) vs. Chris Doughty(R) vs.Shiva Ayyadurai(R,eliminated at convention) vs.Harvard Professor Danielle Allen(D, withdrew) vs.State Sen.Ben Downing(D, withdrew) vs.State Sen.Sonia Chang-Diaz(D, withdrew) Past gubernatorial races: 2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial debate, Gov. Charlie Baker(R) Mayor Setti Warren (D) Jay Gonzalez (D) Bob Massie (D) Former gubernatorial races: 2014 MA Gubernatorial debate 2006 MA Democratic primary debate 2006 MA Gubernatorial debate; Former contenders: Coakley(D,2014); Grossman(D,2014); Berwick(D,2014); Wolf(D,2014); Mihos (R, 2010); Ross (D, 2010); Stein (G, 2010); Gabrieli (D, 2006); Reich (D, 2002); O'Brien (D, 2002)

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