With Trump gone, Maura Healey turns ire on Baker
No one misses Donald Trump more than Maura Healey.
Because with Trump gone, she has no one to sue.
Attorney General Healey, 50, a progressive Democrat, sued Donald Trump close to 50 times during his four years as president, and a made a big deal out of it each time.
Now she is complaining about three lawsuits Republican attorneys general have filed against President Joe Biden, including challenging Biden’s failed immigration policy as well as his shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline that threw thousands out of work.
Healey, who spent the past four years trashing Trump and his agenda, said, “Donald Trump may be out of the White House, but Republican attorneys general across the country are still doing his bidding and conspiring to block President Biden’s agenda at every turn.”
Not only did her GOP colleagues fail to overturn the results of the election, “they’re hellbent on preventing a duly elected president from undoing the illegal policies of the past four years,” she said.
Healey, who has politicized the state’s law office, said, “For four years, Republican AGs were complicit in Donald Trump’s lies, hatred and attacks on our rule of law. Now they’re launching baseless, politically motivated attacks against President Biden.”
One of those “attacks” is challenging Biden’s chaotic immigration policy that has created a humanitarian crisis at the southern border.
Healey, as recently as last Sunday, accused the Republicans of seeking to block Biden’s “rollback of Trump’s cruel immigration policies.” The GOP suit is like the suit filed by Healey against Trump. But now the shoe is on the other foot.
If Trump’s immigration policies along the Mexican order were “cruel,” there is no word — except criminal — to describe what is happening to thousands of parentless children illegally crossing the border under Joe Biden.
Healey made her remarks in a fundraising appeal to supporters as reports mount that she is planning to fun for governor in 2022 when incumbent Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, 64, may or may not seek a third consecutive four-year term.
While there is no public estimate of how much taxpayer money Healey spent on her lawsuits against Trump — most of which went nowhere — Healey gained a lot of publicity for
“standing up” to Trump.
Surely it would be wickedly unfashionable in the woke world of progressives if Healey filed suit against Biden even though he is ultimately responsible — just as Trump was — for the sad plight, even death, of immigrant children led to the border and abandoned by Mexican traffickers.
But odds of the Democrat attorney general filing suit against the Democrat president range from nil to none.
But with Trump gone as her main political target, Healey has redirected her attention toward Gov. Baker, using Baker’s distribution of the COVID-19 as a thin veil to go after him. Charlie Baker has become her Donald
Trump.
The attorney general’s office, for the record, has no role to play in the distribution of the vaccine. However, this has not stopped Healey from traveling throughout the state in a campaign mode acting as though she does.
She is obviously testing the political waters and using the pandemic and the vaccine to do so as she questions the “equity” of the vaccine’s distribution.
Also, part of her campaign for racial justice and equity, the new catchwords of the left, is her charge that under Baker’s Massachusetts, “one of four children in the state” go hungry every night.
It is not known what Baker’s plans are for 2022, and Healey has not officially announced that she is running for the Democratic nomination for governor.
The only Democrat to officially announce his candidacy for governor is Ben Dowling, 39, of East Boston, a progressive Democrat who served five terms in the state Senate from Pittsfield before relocating to work for an environmental start-up.
Interestingly, though, Healey was able to quickly elbow Downing aside by taking over Downing’s issue of making COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for state police, correction officers and other first responders, something that Baker has balked at.
Downing made his proposal a week ago last Friday. Three days later Healey echoed Downing’s remarks in a WGBH radio interview. She said it was “irresponsible” for cops and other state workers not to be vaccinated.
Ben Downing may not be a household name, but at least someone is listening to him.