04/20/2022 07:15 AM EDT
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TAKING AIM — It wasn’t the pre-convention debate that Sonia Chang-Díaz wanted, but the state senator still got a few licks in against Democratic gubernatorial rival Maura Healey during a forum last night.
Chang-Díaz challenged the two-term state attorney general’s record on race and equity issues throughout the Boston Ward 4 and Ward 5 Democrats’ forum moderated by GBH’s Callie Crossley. It’s the first of two April forums to which Healey agreed in response to Chang-Díaz’s call for three pre-convention debates.
By the end of the hour, Chang-Díaz was appealing directly to Healey, not to the Democratic activists on the Zoom.
“Candidate to candidate, person to person, I think we both acknowledge that debates are the cornerstone of our democracy,” Chang-Díaz said. “We've already received offers from NBC Boston and [GBH] to host debates before the convention. So I want to ask you tonight, right now, will you agree to participate in these debates with me for the good of the people of Massachusetts?”
Healey, after a few moments of awkwardness, replied that “we actually have a debate next week” — in reference to a WBUR and Environmental League of Massachusetts forum next Wednesday — and said “I look forward to continuing to talk about policy over the next six weeks.”
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