Palfrey Highlights Policy Differences in Final Attorney General Debate

In full transparency, the following is a press release from the Palfrey campaign submitted to SOURCE media.

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WORCESTER – Today, August 24, at the final Attorney General debate hosted by the Worcester County Bar Association at Quinsigamond Community College, former Assistant Attorney General Quentin Palfrey showed policy differences with his opponents Andrea Campbell, Shannon Liss-Riordan and Jay McMahon.

“There are real differences in this race,” said Palfrey. “on single payer healthcare, on safe injection sites, on charter schools, on what we do about the T, on police accountability and on clean elections.”

Palfrey drew contrast with Liss-Riordan and presumptive Republican nominee McMahon in his pledge to remove qualified immunity for police officers involved in violent altercations, and he further committed to creating a statewide Brady list that records misconduct by police officers. Palfrey also highlighted that he is the only candidate that has both refused support from corporations and special interests and is not self-financing his campaign. 

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“One of the biggest challenges we face is corporate money in our elections. It undermines our ability to take on climate change, gun violence and more. If you want an AG who is going to take on the Waltons, the Bain capitals, the charter school backers, the healthcare executives, you need an attorney general who is not taking money from them.”

Palfrey also detailed his unique qualifications in the AG’s race, as the only candidate with experience working in the Attorney General’s office as an Assistant AG and the first chief of the healthcare division, as well as having managed large teams of government lawyers from his work as acting general counsel in the Biden Administration, leading more the 400 lawyers in a 50,000 person department with a $12 billion budget. 

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Palfrey is a former Assistant Attorney General and was the first chief of the office’s healthcare division. He also served in senior roles in both the Obama and Biden Administrations, and is the founder of the Voter Protection Corps, an organization that works to combat voter suppression. In the race for AG, Palfrey is the endorsed candidate of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, several of Massachusetts leading progressive and environmental advocacy organizations, and over 300 grassroots endorsers from communities in every county in the Commonwealth.

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