Wrentham businessman Chris Doughty has gone full steam forward into the November basic election, blasting Attorney General Maura Healey over “misleading promises” in an advert marketing campaign.
“We’re standing outside … to highlight a recent deceit by my opponent Maura Healey, who is my opponent in this race for governor,” Doughty mentioned in Boston Wednesday. “Despite her recent ad, Maura has been aggressively advocating for higher taxes for decades.”
Healey’s marketing campaign for the governor’s workplace, on Tuesday, launched its first tv advert, which included an assertion she would, if elected, “cut taxes, reduce costs in housing and transportation.”
“I’ve stood with you as the People’s Lawyer, and now I’m running to be your Governor. I grew up one of five kids raised by a single mom, a school nurse. It wasn’t always easy, but teamwork got us through. I believe in teamwork. I’ve seen it on the court and in the court as your Attorney General. As Governor, I’ll make Massachusetts more affordable,” Healey says within the commercial.
Doughty, standing in view of the nook workplace he hopes to sometime maintain, mentioned Healey’s advert isn’t being trustworthy with voters, earlier than itemizing a number of cases when his “opponent” supported tax raises or opposed cuts.
You may name all of it the everyday forwards and backwards of politics, however there is only one drawback: Doughty hasn’t gained the first but. His precise opponent in the intervening time is State Rep. Geoff Diehl, not Healey.
Diehl, not Doughty, gained the get together’s conference in May and has former Pres. Donald Trump’s spoken endorsement.
Diehl can be, by final depend, main within the polls regardless of an enormous funding deficit in opposition to self-funded Doughty.
Doughty’s press convention would have all however excluded point out of Diehl, had he not been requested by reporters in regards to the September contest.
Doughty has maintained for the size of his marketing campaign that Diehl merely doesn’t have the requisite govt expertise to run a state authorities, and that he, as an enterprise chief, can be the higher selection. He reasserted that once more when requested Wednesday.
Amanda Orlando, Diehl’s marketing campaign supervisor, informed the Herald Doughty is misrepresenting Diehl’s document and forgetting who Republican voters say they need.
“It’s amusing that Chris Doughty, who has never run for any office nor won any election, and is currently trailing Geoff in the polls 3-1, believes he has more experience than Geoff, who has won 4 elections, 1 ballot question referendum, has 8 years of public sector and 25 years of private sector experience he brings to the Governor’s office,” she mentioned in an emailed assertion.
Doughty may be borrowing from the Diehl playbook. Last week Diehl was joined by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem for a tour of the North End. Diehl didn’t point out Doughty till requested.
All of that apart, in response to a Healey spokesperson, Doughty’s assertions about her are merely fallacious.
“Maura believes that tax relief is an essential part of making Massachusetts more affordable for taxpayers and businesses. That’s why she’s proposed a Child Tax Credit to give every family $600 per child. She also supports expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit and rental deduction, and increasing the estate tax threshold,” they mentioned.
Healey will virtually definitely win the September major with not different Democrat actively campaigning in opposition to her. She leads both Republican man within the polls by about 30 factors and has for months.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”