Maura Healey on VoteMatch

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Strongly Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+5 points on Social scale)	I'm always going to stand up for abortion access: Strongly Favors topic 1 Ensure access to abortion, contraception, STI testing: Strongly Favors topic 1 Reproductive health care includes medication abortion: Strongly Favors topic 1 Judge's decision ran contrary to science, medicine and law: Strongly Favors topic 1
Favors topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-3 points on Economic scale)	We put an equity lens on everything that we do: Favors topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 3: Support transgender and LGBTQ+ rights (+5 points on Social scale)	Was lead counsel challenging Defense of Marriage Act: Strongly Favors topic 3 The first openly gay state attorney general in U.S. history: Strongly Favors topic 3 End the ban on LGBTQ+ blood donations: Strongly Favors topic 3
Favors topic 4: America was founded on Christian values (-3 points on Social scale)	Faith leaders should work with others on climate change: Favors topic 4
Strongly Favors topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-5 points on Economic scale)	Include health equity as part of Health Care Cost Trends: Strongly Favors topic 5 ACA remains the law of the land; peoples' lives depend on it: Strongly Favors topic 5 Treat mental health care as seriously as other health care: Strongly Favors topic 5 We opened 31 Community Behavioral Health Centers: Strongly Favors topic 5 I worked to make sure that vaccines were available: Strongly Favors topic 5
No opinion on topic 6: Privatize Social Security (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Strongly Opposes topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (-5 points on Economic scale)	Pandemic requires additional support for public schools: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Opposed ballot measure expanding number of charter schools: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Literacy Launch: make Massachusetts first in literacy: Opposes topic 7 Develop a new statewide standard for high school graduation: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Common Start: free child care for lowest-income families: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Gateway to Pre-K: universal preschool in Gateway Cities: Favors topic 7
Strongly Favors topic 8: Businesses have a right to pollute (-5 points on Social scale)	Expects nuclear power plan to obey rules on reactor water: Strongly Favors topic 8
Opposes topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+2 points on Social scale)	Increase penalties for hate crimes, revamp current law: Favors topic 9 Supported 2020 reform bill repealing mandatory minimums: Strongly Opposes topic 9
Strongly Opposes topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (-5 points on Economic scale)	Hold gun dealers & manufacturers accountable for marketing: Strongly Opposes topic 10
Opposes topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (+2 points on Economic scale)	Need to make state more attractive to grow businesses: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Secured the state’s first tax cuts in more than 20 years: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Defends tax cut as imperative; cuts $375M from budget: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Trump tax cuts are going devastate so many people: Strongly Favors topic 11
Strongly Favors topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+5 points on Social scale)	Fought Muslim travel ban & family separation at border: Strongly Favors topic 12 End state involvement in federal immigration matters: Strongly Favors topic 12 Immigrants who work and pay taxes deserve a path forward: Strongly Favors topic 12
No opinion on topic 13: Support & expand free trade (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
No opinion on topic 14: Stay away from the UN & Globalism (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Favors topic 15: Peace through Strength (-3 points on Social scale)	Named first cabinet-level Secretary of Veterans Services: Favors topic 15
Strongly Favors topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+5 points on Social scale)	Voting rights is the most important issue of our time: Strongly Favors topic 16 Pass VOTES Act; same day voter registration: Strongly Favors topic 16
No opinion on topic 17: Stay out of foreign wars (0 points on Social scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Strongly Favors topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Will harness all the levers in combating the climate crisis: Strongly Favors topic 18 Create a cabinet-level Climate Chief & electrify everything: Strongly Favors topic 18 Make Massachusetts the climate innovation lab for the world: Strongly Favors topic 18
Strongly Favors topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (-5 points on Social scale)	Regular pot users likely to try more dangerous drugs: Strongly Favors topic 19
Strongly Favors topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-5 points on Economic scale)	Stimulus checks cannot be seized by debt collectors: Favors topic 20 Encourage entrepreneurism with Office of Economic Assistance: Strongly Favors topic 20 Dealing with a housing shortage that's decades in the making: Strongly Favors topic 20 Allow communities to enact local rent stabilization policies: Strongly Favors topic 20 Affordable childcare is growing in Massachusetts: Strongly Favors topic 20 Going to get shovels in the ground and people in homes: Strongly Favors topic 20 Build a transit system that is worthy of our economy: Strongly Favors topic 20 MBTA Communities Law: multi-family zoning near transit hubs: Strongly Favors topic 20

Maura Healey is a Moderate Liberal Populist
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