Healey is now using abortion rights as a selling point for Massachusetts, at a time when the subject of people moving out of the state is driving policy.
Addressing business leaders Tuesday morning, she included abortion and reproductive rights in her list of the ways she'll out-compete other states. The governor identified the issue as something that differentiates the state from places like Austin, Texas and North Carolina, two states that compete with Massachusetts for biotechnology companies.
In addition to social issues, Healey's competitiveness pitch relies on her tax reform plan — which is moving through the legislative process and emerged in a redrafted form from the House Ways and Means CommitteeThe administration last month named former Obama administration political appointee and candidate for attorney general Quentin Palfrey as the state's first director of federal funds and infrastructure.
"We also have a unique opportunity in the alignment between the Biden-Harris administration's priorities, our wonderful delegation, and the priorities of the Healey-Driscoll administration. I got a call yesterday from Sen. Warren just underscoring that we've got to go out and get some of these resources," Palfrey said.that no one will"compete harder as your governor than me" when it comes to abundant federal dollars available right now.
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