Maura Healey

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The Daily · 'The Interview': Gov. Maura Healey Wants Democrats to Put Up a Fight · 1 Mar 2025 podcast

And I had a career as an athlete, a professional athlete, basketball player, before college. I went to law school. I think about all that was made possible for me as a woman because there were state and federal laws in place that said, you know what? We should treat everybody fairly. Doesn't matter your gender, you know? Doesn't matter the color of your skin, your religion.

I think that's an American principle. I'm not giving up on that. Even if it means pulling federal funding. I just think enough people need to continue to speak out and speak to why that's such a bad thing. Talk to any CEO, major, you know, Fortune 500 company. They'll tell you that their bottom line dollar-wise, does better when there's more diversity in the room. That's not a bad thing.

It's a good thing. It's made us stronger. Many of these companies, though, are ditching their DEI programs. And I don't know why. I don't know why. I mean, I think I know why. I think that they feel the threat of Elon Musk. They feel the threat of Donald Trump, which is sort of one and the same. But I think that that's what they're responding to. It's not right. It's not a winner for this country.

It's not going to help us be more competitive around the world by removing or doing things that hinder talent in this country and the success of individuals.

You know, it's... It's interesting at a time when the co-president, Elon Musk, is giving us Hitler salutes and espousing anti-Semitic things. And I just find it ironic that we're going to have this debate over DEI and whether it's effective. all the while this is going on over here. I mean, like, seriously?

So we can talk about DEI and whether there are some approaches or aspects that people want to look at more or maybe need reform or, you know, there should be more flexibility in certain things. But do not tell me that we are going to condone and go down a path in government or in corporate America that says women and people of color are no longer at the table.

And not only no longer at the table, but will not be supported anywhere along the way. I think unfortunately what's happened in the moment, we've seen a lot of capitulation. We've seen a lot of people trying to hedge their bets. You mean to tell me that's good for America? Come on.

Do you worry about that? I do. I mean, how can you not? The Supreme Court constituted as it is. I mean, how can you not? It seems like anything is possible, is conceivable. Now, you know, it is, again, up to everyone to be able to speak out and articulate why it is so important to hold on to precedent. I thought we'd done that with Roe, right? And look what happened there. So...

I guess I'd unpack that a little bit. I think if you look at Roe and the aftermath of Roe, right? What did I do right away as governor? Stockpile Mifepristone, right? We passed a shield law here to protect patients and providers. Other governors took similar actions. We saw races in states change.

over Roe, over the abortion issue, where abortion rights won time after time after time, where it didn't carry the day or carry the entirety of an election, determinative of an election. The only one was the presidential. And I just think that abortion rights wasn't enough to overcome the

the perception of weak leadership by the Biden administration on immigration, on the economy, and a poor job communicating what had actually been delivered for American people. And also it was in the context of increasing inflation and high costs and a perception that

The Democratic candidate wasn't empathizing enough and feeling the pain and delivering up a solution, saying X, Y and Z. I'm going to deliver for you. Now, meanwhile, Donald Trump said all these things that he was going to do to lower costs and prices and, of course, hasn't done a goddamn thing. No. Or is he going to?

But I don't blame, like, I don't think there was a dissipation in the effect, the after effect of Roe. I think it's there. It's strong. I think it did contribute to more people coming out, even in the presidential. And I think the results in other races have shown what's consistent with the polling, which is the vast majority of Americans, Democrat and Republican, support abortion rights.

As to marriage equality, we'll see. You know, it's something that I think has been, at least in Massachusetts, I mean, we've had marriage equality for 20 years now. Many states have had it for some time as well. And the idea that a court overnight would take away that right, take away—remember, these are state marriage licenses.

These aren't federal marriage licenses, which is why I wanted the case to begin with, the DOMA case. You know, it shouldn't happen as a matter of law. But imagine the destruction to families, right? So I hope that doesn't happen.

You know, to me, it's just so sad that we are talking about such an infinitesimal portion of the population. But Trump and the Republicans intentionally made that into a mountain, right? We're talking about such a small sliver of the population. By the way, on athletics, it's even smaller as a percentage, but they did it incredibly well.

effective job of making that an issue that in immigration i think we're um what i keep on hearing you say is that they've managed i think well i think i think the other thing was the economy at the end of the day i think it's the economy that that ended up uh doing um biden and kamala harris and last question

But that's a real thing, right? Aren't people talking about it? He's got a group talking about a third term. Are you worried about that? I am. I am worried about that. You have to think about it. I mean, I have a pretty sober view of the situation, you know? I mean, we lived through Trump 1. We're on to Trump 2.

I was talking to a historian the other day who I called on President's Day to ask for some guidance to help me. provide a context for this moment that we're in. And she said to me, I can't, we've never seen anything like this before in American history. So you asked me that question and my legit genuine answer is, yeah, I'm worried about that.

I'm worried about what they're doing in terms of looking to undermine future elections. Look at what Trump is proposing with the Postal Service and wanting to take it over, wanting to privatize it, right? The other day in the governor's meeting, he told us all we should be working by paper ballot. And, you know, there's a reason they are doing that.

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