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Maura Healey: “People who've been here decades, paying taxes, raising…”

Featuring: Maura Healey, Democratic | Governor of Massachusetts

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Governor Healey Takes Action to Address Energy Costs

Published | Video Starts at 14:52

When you see a teenager picked up on his way to volleyball practice or you know, construction worker or landscaper workers just, you know, taken from their trucks on the way to work, People who've been here decades, paying taxes, raising families, contributing to our communities now just ripped from, ripped from their neighborhoods, ripped from their livelihoods and ripped away from their families. That's not making anybody safer. Thank you. Sorry, sorry. I talked to a number of energy experts who feel that programs like massage were kind of unfairly blamed for high energy costs last year. (14:52–15:06)

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