Candidate For Governor Mike Kennealy Says State Policy "Driving The Affordability Agenda" In Massachusetts

CBS Boston

April 21, 2025

Mike Kennealy, the first prominent Republican challenger to Maura Healey in the 2026 Massachusetts governor's race, told WBZ-TV he's focused on the future of the state and not on President Donald Trump's policies.

But with those policies - including aggressive arrests of immigrants and pro-Palestinian students, mass firings of federal officials and deep cuts in federal spending relied on by key sectors of the Massachusetts economy - dominating the local headlines, aren't the federal and state stories inextricably linked?

"We focus on affordability, affordability in three dimensions, housing, energy and taxes," says Kennealy, the former Secretary of Housing and Economic Development under Gov. Charlie Baker who says he blanked the presidential race all three times Trump has been on the ballot.

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