{"id":18005,"date":"2014-08-26T21:04:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=18005"},"modified":"2014-08-28T17:07:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T21:07:09","slug":"globe-debate-between-maura-healy-and-warren-tolman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/08\/26\/globe-debate-between-maura-healy-and-warren-tolman\/","title":{"rendered":"Globe Debate Between Maura Healy and Warren Tolman"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received this email from the Healy campaign.<\/p>\n

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\"Maura<\/p>\n

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Dear Steven,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“Unbecoming.” It means unattractive, indecorous. It’s not a word you hear men on Beacon Hill use about each other.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But that\u2019s the word Warren Tolman used during today\u2019s Boston Globe<\/em> debate when Maura asked him to shed light on his hedge fund work, his online gambling company, and his work as a lobbyist. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Rather than answer the question, he said, “Maura, it’s just unbecoming.”<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

That\u2019s right. “Unbecoming.”<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As a prosecutor and a civil rights attorney, Maura understands that tough questions are how you get at the truth. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Maura Healey for Attorney General
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What I could find in The Boston Globe<\/em> was the article Attorney general candidates spar in feisty debate<\/a>. Here is an excerpt from the article.<\/p>\n
Healey, a former top deputy to Attorney General Martha Coakley, spoke of being a tough litigator who has protected the vulnerable. \u201cYou are the people\u2019s lawyer, that is the role of the attorney general,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Tolman, a former state senator who pushed significant tobacco and ethics reform through the Legislature, spoke of leading outside the courthouse on issues like sexual assault on college campuses.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a visionary kind of role that I see, where you look at issues, you tackle them — it could be in the courtroom, it could be outside the courtroom, it doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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There is not too much more to the article. Not very informative about why they chose the headline they did. Without the email from the Healy campaign who would know what Warren Tolman has been doing since he left office.<\/p>\n
I am pretty sure i don’t want an Attorney General off having visions and neglecting the basic work of going after the (white collar) criminals. (It would be great if he could do both aspects of the job effectively.) The only thing that could partially rescue Warren Tolman in my eyes would be if he addressed his work since he has been out of office. He needs to explain what he has learned about the miscreants he met that he should be prosecuting when he gets elected.<\/p>\n
Can you picture Elizabeth Warren, who wants to put some bankers and hedge fund managers in jail, working closely with our state’s Attorney General, who worked for a hedge fund and owns a gambling company? It would also make all the difference in the world to know what kind of lobbying he did.<\/p>\n
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August 28, 2014<\/p>\n
See my subsequent post Tolman apologizes for calling Healey\u2019s questions \u2018unbecoming\u2019<\/a> to see a video clip of the relevant section of the debate and to see why I think Tolman has dug himself an even deeper hole than I at first thought. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I received this email from the Healy campaign. Dear Steven, “Unbecoming.” It means unattractive, indecorous. It’s not a word you hear men on Beacon Hill use about each other. But that\u2019s the word Warren Tolman used during today\u2019s Boston Globe debate when Maura asked him to shed light on his hedge fund work, his online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18005"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18031,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18005\/revisions\/18031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}