Healey's Reelection Campaign Blames Woes on Trump: Her Track Record Shows a Different Story

Governor Maura Healey officially announced her reelection bid this week. The incumbent launched a campaign video acknowledging constituents’ concerns over high energy bills and rising costs. However, Healey blames these tough times on Donald Trump, a guaranteed rallying cry for her Democratic base. Despite four years in office and a Democrat super majority in the Mass statehouse, Healey cites Trump as the reason for the overall decline. But in reality, Massachusetts faces unique and pervasive issues of affordability, scandal, and unemployment that aren't caused by forces outside the state, but from inside its administration.

Massachusetts currently ranks in the bottom five states nationally in affordability, job growth, cost to retire, and the price of energy bills. Healey has been in the statehouse for over ten years, first as attorney general and now as governor. During that tenure, joblessness in the state has surged, exceeding the national unemployment average. The audit of the State Legislature—where voters from both parties overwhelmingly banded together to support—has been stalled by Healey’s own attorney general. Her office has been tainted in scandal after her aid, and deputy director, LaMar Cook was arrested for trafficking cocaine to his office at the statehouse.  Another legal issue later arose around Cook when it was discovered he received a $30,000 pension payout, despite being fired and detained. Healey said the payout was sent erroneously, but the mistake still reveals a lack of either morality or competency at the State level.

Governors office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Residents are sick of this administration.  As prices soar a third of residents have considered leaving Massachusetts. The state, once again, has ranked in the bottom five states for one-way U-Haul departures, showing an alarming trend of outward migration.  Businesses have also been leaving, many of them heading to New Hampshire to take advantage of lower taxes and fewer regulations. Thousands of them are going to Republican governed states, belying Healey’s claim that Trump is at fault.

As thousands of employers close down, contributing to job loss in the state over time, one of the most recent is Curia Global, which was just named Massachusetts Manufacturer of the Year. Three months later, the plant is packing up and laying off. The plant’s departure has caused the director of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance to put the blame on lawmakers, noticing that Massachusetts struggles to attract and retain business.

Healey’s attitude towards climate contributes to the steep cost of living. Although MassFiscal urges State leadership to abandon their NetZero by 2050 mandate, Healey continues to pursue authoritarian climate mandates rather than aspirational goals that have her constituents in mind. Under her relentless agenda, lawmakers contemplate restrictions on personal travel to further their impossible climate goal. This same authoritative approach is on display through the MTBA communities act as Healey forces small towns to comply with her infrastructure mandates or lose community resources.

While Healey runs rampant through Beacon Hill with her climate dreams it is working families who pay the price. The loss of over 24,000 private sector jobs and a Massachusetts cost of living that is 48% higher than the national average clashes with the 11% pay increase for lawmakers Healey demanded in 2025. The pay raise also affected Healey, raising her salary to one of the highest for a Governor across the nation. Not something you’d expect from a governor whose state is among the lowest for affordability and employment. Government pensions in Mass have surged since the pandemic, with over $6 billion in total going to retirees, regardless of the quality of service they have provided for those they represent. Healey’s administration has clear benefits for the political elite, but not so much for her taxpayer constituents. In fact she’s prioritized illegal migrants over them, investing thousands of dollars into housing programs for these illegals.

While the state struggles Healey tries to push the blame on Donald Trump, but throughout her administration employment has fallen and costs have risen. Constituents pay for Healey’s self-initiated salary raise while their own quality of life declines. Healey continually prioritizes policies over people, illegals over taxpayers, and the elite over the working class. Now she’s looking for another four years of the same.

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