POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: Healey picks her battles
By Kelly Garrity Presented by PICKING A FIGHT — As Democrats debate how to turn the page on their party’s losses last fall, Gov. Maura Healey is picking her battles strategically. Healey hasn’t called any emergency legislative sessions like California Gov. Gavin Newsom, nor did she join the “ Governors Safeguarding Democracy ” initiative led by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis. But in an in-depth New York Times interview over the weekend, Healey questioned the party’s response to Trump’s efforts to roll back DEI initiatives (“When there was all this talk and denigration of D.E.I., I don’t know why the response wasn’t: You know what? It’s actually good to have women and people of color in the military.”) She opined on Democrats’ “brand problem,” one of the issues she said led to their electoral struggles last cycle. And she called for “aggressive” and “proactive” leadership from Congress, urging Democr...
