Statehouse Spotlight: Leadership at DNC in Chicago

the state's highest officials spent the week in the windy city at the Democratic National Convention where Massachusetts cast all 116 delegate votes for vice president Kamala Harris to be their party's Presidential nominee at the convention Massachusetts women in politics took center stage with Thursday night speeches from Governor Mora Healey and US Senator Elizabeth Warren Governor Healey who was a Massachusetts Attorney General while Harris was the attorney of California delivered a speech focused on contrast between former president Donald Trump's criminal record and Harris's record as a prosecutor Senator Warren delivered a speech focused on how Harris plans to help workingclass families after a minute and a half longstanding Ovation groceries gas housing Health Care taxes abortion we need to make life more affordable for working people back on Beacon Hill state auditor Diana daglio held a press conference detailing a draft executive order her office wrote meant to ban the use of taxpayer money to fund state government non-disclosure agreements how many more years are we going to allow victims of harassment discrimination and abuse to be silenced by powerful perpetrators in state government while the governor was in Chicago lieutenant governor Kim Driscoll served as acting governor before leaving for the convention on Tuesday afternoon Secretary of the common Commonwealth Bill Galvin returned from the DNC to serve as acting governor on Tuesday both Hy and Driscoll are scheduled to fly home from Chicago on Friday afternoon to resume their roles in state government working for you from the state house in Boston I'm Olivia Ray 22 News