INTERVIEW: Attorney General Maura Healey joins WBUR's Radio Boston to discuss what's driving her run for Massachusetts governor, and the values the Democrat plans to bring to the office if elected in November.
, the [National Rifle Association] — running an office that I really tried to center, from the time I began, around this idea of 'the people's law firm.' We're going to be there to serve people, and whether that was helping student borrowers just crushed by debt, workers who needed protection from having their wages stolen or workplace safety conditions. Tenants, immigrants, consumers. I mean, these are the people that my team and I have served in the past seven years.
"One thing I'm most proud of as attorney general is we put an equity lens on everything that we do. Everything that runs through the office — whether it's consumer work, financial services or the environment, health care — everything is looked at through an equity lens. So you asked about a couple of pain points. One, I think, is the pain point of COVID and the disparities that we've seen, not just in health care ... but also the things that lead to some of those disparities.
On feedback she has heard from voters about changing her approach to be a successful governor, compared to what it took to be successful as attorney general:
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