Gov. Maura Healey is giving up on Massachusetts taxpayers.
How else are you able to make sense of her ambitions? Her look on “Late Night time With Seth Meyers” was a reckless play for Democratic platitudes. The applause mild was put to work final week as she spoke of what her occasion did flawed as an alternative of fixing what’s damaged within the Bay State.
She’s a part of the Democratic occasion’s scramble to get better from an embarrassing loss to President Donald Trump. It’s straightforward to see she’s positioning herself as a possible presidential candidate in 2028. Or, on the very least, a Cupboard put up for being so early out of the gate.
However Massachusetts doesn’t want one other Elizabeth Warren.
Warren performed to the late-night crowd for years and nonetheless needed to drop out of the presidential race in March of 2020. She rattled off the identical drained speaking factors — “the center class is getting hammered” — that even Stephen Colbert appeared exasperated.
It’s tough to make jokes when you understand your visitor isn’t going to observe your lead.
Now we’re caught with Healey, who’s taking Warren’s route into obscurity, whereas we’re caught with a $62 billion fiscal yr 2026 funds proposal that wants a backup plan if federal {dollars} dry up.
And what concerning the Cape Cod bridges?
The Bay State has been working with the Military Corps of Engineers since 2020 to safe funding for the substitute of each bridges, anticipated to price upwards of $4.5 billion.
If that isn’t sufficient to trigger angina, Healey’s administration has already spent greater than half a billion {dollars} this fiscal yr on taxpayer-funded shelters housing migrants and native households, based on public information. That’s simply over $520 million within the seven and a half months for the reason that fiscal yr began in July 2024.
Voters have put up with Warren, for some unknown cause, most likely as a result of she will be able to’t do a lot hurt within the U.S. Senate. However Healey controls taxpayer {dollars} the place the rubber meets the street — or the place our tires meet the potholes.
The governor wants to sit down herself down within the Nook Workplace and legislate. She must safe no matter federal {dollars} she will be able to and look to chop the funds at residence — not on TV — and look out for the hard-working residents of Massachusetts who desperately want a governor who needs to do the job.
Seth Meyers earns an annual wage of $5 million, based on revealed reviews. He may care much less concerning the migrant disaster in Massachusetts — except sleeping migrants in Terminal E at Logan Airport come again once more and drive him to stroll across the sleeping baggage. (We checked just lately, and it seems they’ve been moved out.)
There’s no humor in all of this. It’s truly slightly unhappy that our nice state is residence to Democrats with lofty aspirations that finally have them saying goodbye to Massachusetts. Why not dig in and repair what’s damaged? Why not attempt to work with the present administration as greatest you’ll be able to?
Is it an excessive amount of to ask our legislators to consider taxpayers first, for as soon as?
Governor, all we ask is so that you can research the rise and fall of Liz Warren and see if that’s the course you wish to take. It’s not. As 1000’s drive over the growing older Cape bridges, simply do not forget that Maura Healey wished to joke round with Seth Meyers as an alternative of working for the individuals who put her within the driver’s seat.
