HALFWAY THROUGH her first term, Gov. Maura Healey is seeking to tamp down speculation that she might be up for a post in Kamala Harris’s administration if the vice president wins the White House in November.
Healey appeared yesterday on the Sunday chat show “Face the Nation,” where CBS Chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes said Healey’s name had been “floated” as a possible attorney general if Harris were to win the election. Healey served as the state attorney general before winning the Corner Office in 2022.
Asked if she’d be interested in the federal level job, Healey pivoted to touting herself as a “pro-growth Democrat” like Harris. “We just cut taxes here in the state, which is also something that Kamala Harris wants to do – cut taxes for the middle class,” Healey said.
But in speaking with reporters on Monday, just after she finished addressing union members at the annual Greater Boston Labor Council’s Labor Day breakfast, Healey offered a stronger answer about her interest.
“You know, I laugh at people with their speculation about stuff,” Healey said. “I want to be really clear: I am not interested in any job other than being governor. And more importantly we’ve got a race to win, okay? So I’m not going to engage in further discussions about this. This is about winning a critically important election.”
Healey, who is the first woman and LGBTQ person to sit in the Corner Office, added, for emphasis: “I love being governor, I am not interested in any other job.”
Healey has spent the summer in the political spotlight, saying that President Joe Biden should consider ending his campaign for a second term after a disastrous presidential debate on June 27. She was the first Democratic governor to do so.
Healey had been serving as a “super surrogate” for the Biden campaign, and now is playing the same role for the Harris camp. Healey was also among the headliners during the Democrats’ convention in Chicago.
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