Maura Healey: “I’m not sure that people voted for Donald Trump to fire all the scientists and the people who are trying to cure cancer…”

The key here is there’s a lot of good things that we can do. We know how to do it. We know what needs to happen, and we’ve got to get it done now.

There will be ugliness coming out of today. There will be ugly rhetoric. There will be meanness. There will be cruelty. There will be racist tirades. You see it online and elsewhere.

I know all of us here are of the deep view that no family, no resident, no community, should ever have to suffer or live with fear that something like this could happen to them or to their loved one.

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