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Tolman vs Healey (both are losers...they're not looking out for you)
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The following from WBUR 90.9 Boston's NPR News Station
In Mass. AG Race, Candidates Square Off Over Gun Control, Experience
by Mike Deehan
NEEDHAM,
Mass. — With time running out before the primary, the two
Democratic candidates seeking to become Massachusetts attorney general are
becoming a bit more personal in their face-to-face meetings.
There
aren’t many policy areas where candidates Warren Tolman and Maura Healey
disagree, but their difference in style was on display at a debate recorded at
the Needham studios of WCVB-TV. The station wouldn’t allow the media to
broadcast audio of the debate. Both candidates spoke about why they want to be
the state’s top attorney after the event.
Tolman
is trying to make the case that his policy experience as a former state senator
gives him an edge over Healey, who’s spent her career as a civil rights lawyer
and an assistant to current Attorney General Martha Coakley.
“Inevitably,
there will be issues where the attorney general will be on the wrong side of
quote unquote public opinion. And you have to stand tall and you have to be a
leader,” Tolman said.
But
Healey insists her career has provided more relevant experience for the
position and is casting her lack of political experience as a positive.
“I
was a division and bureau chief in the attorney general’s office,” she said. “And
that experience is very different than the experience of a Beacon Hill
politician. And that’s how I come to this. I am not an insider, I am not a part
of the Beacon Hill establishment. I am a person who has been fighting for
people here in this state.”
One
issue where there’s at least a slight disagreement between the candidates is
new safe-gun technology. Tolman says he would require finger-print safety
technology on all new handguns sold in the state and that he believes he could
do that under his own authority as attorney general.
“There
is an existing case in 1999 that’s pretty clear about the attorney general’s
authority,” Tolman said. “Remember, we’re regulating an unsafe product; the
most unsafe product sold today is guns.”
Healey
also endorses the smart-gun technology, but says the AG must also work to stop
gun trafficking and combat violence.
“His
single-minded focus on a technology that I support but doesn’t deal with the
problem today just isn’t my kind of leadership or what I want out of the
attorney general’s office,” she said.
Both
candidates say the attorney general has a role to play in the struggle over the
past month for control of the family-owned Market Basket supermarket chain.
Healey
says the top priority for the attorney general should be to protect the rights
of workers. Tolman said he would have used the office to push for a resolution
behind the scenes to end the conflict.
During
the debate, Healey challenged Tolman about his former investment in a gambling
company she says tries to get young people to gamble. Tolman calls the
allegation that young people were involved false. He says he would make sure
any gambling company operating in Massachusetts follows the law.
The
winner of the Sept. 9 Democratic primary goes on to face Republican
nominee John Miller in November.
The
debate airs Sunday morning on WCVB-TV.
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