民主党州长表示，他们正在组建一个反特朗普的抵抗组织。莫拉·希利不在其中。
【中美创新时报2024 年 11 月 14 日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）民主党州长正在组织起来反对特朗普的第二届政府，本周他们表示，他们正在召集志同道合的州行政人员联盟，以帮助对抗“威权主义的危险”。有一位没有加入抵抗组织的领导人：莫拉·希利。《波士顿环球报》记者马特·斯托特对此作了下述报道。
据希利办公室称，这位马萨诸塞州州长的政治崛起部分得益于她与现任当选总统唐纳德·特朗普的反复斗争，但她并不是新成立的“州长维护民主”倡议的成员。
该联盟自称是一项无党派的努力，旨在结合几个州长办公室的力量来“保护州一级的民主机构”。伊利诺伊州民主党州长 JB Pritzker 和科罗拉多州民主党州长 Jared Polis 本周发起了这项活动。
“在我们历史上的这个关键时刻，我们必须团结起来，保护我们民主的基础，确保我们的机构经受住威胁，坚持改善人民生活的使命，”Pritzker 在一份声明中说。
该组织没有回应有关还有哪些州长承诺参与这项活动的问题，Pritzker 和 Polis 公开拒绝透露其他成员的身份，只是指出他们也联系了共和党人。
该联盟预计将获得 Pritzker 所说的“慈善”支持。但它究竟打算如何利用多个州长办公室的权力，或者打算在哪些问题上与特朗普政府抗争，目前尚不清楚。该组织表示，其目标包括试图“保护法治”和为州长制定应对“剧本”。
它还与另一个具有明显马萨诸塞州影响力的组织“州长行动联盟”合作；前州长、民主党人德瓦尔·帕特里克和共和党人威廉·韦尔德均是该组织的顾问委员会成员。
至少，“州长维护民主”组织可以为其民主党领导人提供一个回应特朗普的平台。普利兹克是副总统卡马拉·哈里斯竞选团队审查的潜在竞选搭档之一。在哈里斯最终选择明尼苏达州州长蒂姆·沃尔兹之前，波利斯也没有隐藏他对这一职位的兴趣。
“如果他们进行民意调查，结果发现他们需要一名来自科罗拉多州博尔德的 49 岁、秃顶、同性恋犹太人，他们就会得到我的电话号码，”波利斯在夏天开玩笑说。
希利的发言人卡丽莎·汉德表示，虽然她不是“州长维护民主”组织的成员，但希利“与其他州长保持着频繁联系”。
“希利州长……将继续与他们密切合作，因为她专注于降低马萨诸塞州人民的成本并保护他们的权利和自由，”汉德说。
希利后来告诉记者，州长们已经有了沟通和协调的“基础设施”。
“我看到两位州长，普利兹克州长和波利斯州长，正在组织一些活动，但我将继续与我的州长们合作，”她说。 “我们只需要在事情发生时评估我们需要采取的各种步骤，我们需要在各州内做什么，我们需要一起做什么，我们需要与其他州官员一起做什么。
“如果联邦政府中的任何人做了任何违反法律的事情，他们将被州检察长追究责任，当然也会得到各州州长的支持，”她说。
马萨诸塞州民主党人已经表示，他们正在准备自己的防御阵线来对抗第二届特朗普政府。希利本人在全国媒体露面时承诺“坚守阵地”反对特朗普，包括保护马萨诸塞州免受特朗普承诺的大规模无证移民驱逐。
但在上周选举结束后，她也发出了不同的声音，称这是在严重的党派分歧中“团结起来的时候”。她还承诺为那些投票给特朗普的人发声。（哈里斯赢得了马萨诸塞州，尽管特朗普在该州的几个地方取得了进展，获得了近 37% 的选票。）
“无论你是谁，无论你投票给谁，请相信我们将继续共同努力，继续前进，”希利上周告诉记者，她称自己是该州“所有人的州长”。 “我今天要告诉马萨诸塞州的每个人，我们看到了你们。无论你是否投票给当选总统，我们都会看到你们。”
《波士顿环球报》的 Anjali Huynh 为本报告做出了贡献。
题图：马萨诸塞州州长莫拉·希利。帕特·格林豪斯/Globe 工作人员
附原英文报道：
Democratic governors say they’re forming a resistance group against Trump. Maura Healey is not among them.
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated November 14, 2024
Governor Maura HealeyPat Greenhouse/Globe Staff
Democratic governors are organizing against a second Trump administration, saying this week they’re pulling together a coalition of like-minded state executives to help battle the “dangers of authoritarianism.”
One leader not joining the resistance group: Maura Healey.
The Massachusetts governor, whose political rise was fueled in part by her repeated battles with now President-elect Donald Trump, is not a member of the newly formed initiative known as Governors Safeguarding Democracy, according to Healey’s office.
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.
“At this critical moment in our history, we must unite to protect the foundations of our democracy and ensure our institutions withstand threats and persevere in their mission to improve the lives of our people,” Pritzker said in a statement.
The group did not respond to questions about which other governors have committed to the effort, and Pritzker and Polis have publicly declined to identify other members, except to note they have reached out to Republicans, too.
The coalition expected to receive what Pritzker has described as “philanthropic” backing. But exactly how it intends to leverage the power of multiple governor’s offices, or on which issues it intends to fight the Trump administration, was not immediately clear. The group says its goals include trying to “protect the rule of law” and developing “playbooks” for governors to respond.
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.
At the very least, the Governors Safeguarding Democracy could offer its Democratic leaders a platform to respond to Trump. Pritzker was among those vetted by Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign as a potential running mate. Polis also didn’t hide his interest in the role before Harris ultimately tapped Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
“If they do the polling and it turns out that they need a 49-year-old, balding, gay Jew from Boulder, Colo., they got my number,” Polis joked over the summer.
Karissa Hand, a spokesperson for Healey, said while she is not a member of the Governors Safeguarding Democracy, Healey is in “frequent contact with other Governors.”
“Governor Healey . . . will continue to work closely with them as she focuses on lowering costs for the people of Massachusetts and protecting their rights and freedoms,” Hand said.
Healey later told reporters that governors already have an “infrastructure” to communicate and coordinate.
“I saw the announcement that two governors, Governor Pritzker and Governor Polis, are organizing something, but I’m going to continue to work with my governors,” she sad. “We’re just going to have to evaluate as things happen, the various steps that we need to take, what we need to do within our states, what we need to do working together, what we need to do with other state officials.
“If anybody in the federal government does anything that violates the law, they’ll be held accountable by state attorneys general and certainly with the support of governors in the states,” she said.
Massachusetts Democrats have already indicated they are preparing their own defensive front against a second Trump administration. Healey herself has promised in national media appearances to “hold the line” against Trump, including to protect Massachusetts from the mass deportations of undocumented immigrants that Trump has promised.
But she also struck a different tone in the immediate aftermath of last week’s election, calling it “a time to come together” amid harsh partisan divisions. She also promised to be a voice for those who voted for Trump, too. (Harris won Massachusetts, though Trump made gains in several parts of the state to claim nearly 37 percent of the vote here.)
“Whoever you are, whoever you voted for, know that we’re going to continue to work together and move forward,” Healey told reporters last week, calling herself a “governor for everyone” in the state. “My message today to everybody in Massachusetts is that we see you. We see you, whether you voted for the president-elect or not.”
Anjali Huynh of the Globe staff contributed to this report.
