Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) is declining to join a so-called “resistance” organization put together by Democratic Party governors from other states to fight President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration.
The coalition is billing itself as a nonpartisan effort to combine the power of several governor’s offices to “protect the state-level institutions of democracy.” Democratic governors JB Pritzker of Illinois and Jared Polis of Colorado launched the effort this week.
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It’s also working with another organization, Governors Action Alliance, that has a decidedly Massachusetts influence; former governors Deval Patrick, a Democrat, and William Weld, a Republican, both sit on that group’s advisory board.
The group is expected to receive donations that Pritzker, a billionaire heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, describes as “philanthropic.” It is not…
