Thanks! Is Healey really considered an opponent? I've heard very little about her.
As for Willie Horton, despite the doubt shown in the quote, it WAS Algor who first used the issue against Dukakis in the primaries- then the press all blamed it on the republicans.
She's kind of laid low--preferring not to take part in debates till her Dem. opponent is officially chosen. If elected she would be the first woman to be elected in her own right as Governor--as opposed to Jane Swift, who served as acting governor after Cellucci took a job as Amb. to Canada. (Swift's
poll numbers were so low she dropped out of the '02 race
and Mitt Romney became the GOP nominee and, eventual, governor.)
http://www.healeycommittee.com/meet_kerry.html