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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey jumps into race for governor

Attorney General Maura Healey
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Attorney General Maura Healey

She starts as the front-runner in the Democratic field

Ending months of speculation, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has announced her run for governor.

The Democrat, who is very popular with the state party’s progressive base, enters the gubernatorial field with a clear advantage in campaign fundraising and statewide name recognition.

For analysis of the 2022 race for governor in Massachusetts, WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Tim Vercellotti, political science professor and director of the polling institute at Western New England University.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.