Lucas: Communication breakdown: Warren took Trump’s call, unlikely Healey would

Maybe President Donald Trump will call Gov. Maura Healey the way he phoned fellow Trump hater Sen. Elizabeth Warren last Monday.

Thursday would be a perfect time because that is when Healey will give her annual “State of the State” speech before a joint session of the Legislature.

She will tell Massachusetts what a good job she is doing and how she will do more if reelected.

If anything is wrong, it’ll be Trump’s fault.

Perhaps Trump will watch, if he is not too busy taking over Greenland and Cuba, to go along with his other worldly accomplishments.

After all, he did watch leftist Warren on television when she gave her speech at the National Press Club where she criticized him over a range of issues.

But Warren also brought up capping credit card interest rates and creating more affordable housing, both of which Trump supports. So maybe that’s why he called.

Something else is possibly working out between the two, a possible detente, because a week has gone by and Trump has not called Warren Pocahontas and Warren has not called him a dictator.

There is no chance that Trump will call Healey, of course. She probably would not take the call anyway. And she will not call him.

That’s because part of her reelection strategy is to campaign against Trump and negatively tie all three of her Republicans opponents to him, as though supporting Trump is a horrible thing.

The lame, left-wing media laps it up anyway.

Those three candidates are Brian Shortsleeve, Mike Kennealy and Mike Minogue.

Warren, by the way, is not up for reelection until 2030 — so politically, she can afford to talk to Trump, and maybe even get something done instead of just whining.

Healey is up for reelection this year, though. So how would it look to her lunatic leftist supporters if Trump-hater Healey talked to the president?

Progressive hearts would break.

The call Healey should take, though, is one from fellow Democrat state Auditor Diana DiZoglio.

She is being blocked by the power brokers at the State House, specifically Attorney General Andrea Campbell, in her effort to audit the Massachusetts Legislature. DiZoglio could use the help.

The voting public in 2024 overwhelmingly approved a ballot question, which DiZoglio campaigned on, authorizing the auditor to audit the Legislature.

The vote was 2,282,333 votes (72%) in favor to 906,034 (28%) against.

Since its passage, however, the Democrat-controlled Legislature, led by House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka, have fought its implementation on constitutional grounds.

They also believe that such an audit is unnecessary because the legislature audits itself.

DiZoglio’ attempt to get the courts to rule on the matter has also been blocked by Attorney General Andrea Campbell, who has refused to represent DiZoglio, who cannot go to court without representation by the attorney general.

Campbell maintains that DiZoglio has not provided her office with enough information. DiZoglio says that she has given Campbell everything she has asked for and then some.

The legislature in turn has rewarded Campbell by approving an extra $7 million in the AG’s budget.

DiZoglio accused Campbell of “conspiring” with Mariano and Spilka to kill the effort.

“What we are all witnessing before our very eyes is nothing short of public corruption,” DiZoglio said.

Healey, like Campbell, campaigned on providing more accountability and transparency in government, but she won’t side with DiZoglio, or the people who voted to open the books.

Healey can “stand up” to Trump, but she can’t stand up to the legislature.

DiZoglio may be on her own at the State House, but she has 2,282,333 voters behind her.

Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com.

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