How much is that Dunkin' worth to you? Healey’s campaign fundraises over spat with RFK Jr.
The day after she dared U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy to pry her Dunkin' from her New England-winter-frozen hands, Gov. Maura Healey has asked her supporters to put their money where their mouths are.
Healey, a Democrat running for reelection this fall, blasted out a fundraising email to her supporters on Thursday, asking them to join the resistance to RFK Jr.'s crusade against the Bay State's beloved (and utterly ubiquitous) coffee chain.
"Team, RFK Jr. is now threatening to pull ingredients from the market if they can't be proven safe. And that includes ingredients found in a beloved Massachusetts institution: Dunkin'," Healey, whose go-to Dunkin' order is a hot medium with cream, wrote.
"The man who spent years spreading dangerous misinformation about life-saving vaccines — causing real harm to real families — is now positioning himself as someone who actually cares about your health by going after your morning iced coffee," she continued.
Then, repeating some social media shade she issued on Wednesday, Healey reposted a photo of a Dunkin' cup emblazoned with the slogan "Come and take it."
The response was a play on a popular slogan used by gun advocates as a rallying cry against firearm legislation.
Kennedy made comments at a rally last week implying that Dunkin' uses harmful ingredients in its coffee and said the federal government might look to ban the product .
"We're going to ask Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks, 'Show us the safety data that show that it's OK for a teenage girl to drink an iced coffee with 115 grams of sugar in it,'" Kennedy said at an event in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 26. "I don't think they're gonna be able to do it."
Clicking on a link in the email brings supporters to a fundraising page where they can donate as little as $4 or as much as $250 — or an amount of their choice. They also have the option of setting up a recurring donation.
Healey is an open Dunkin' supporter. In 2024, she arrived at a St. Patrick's Day breakfast in South Boston decked out in a full Dunkin'-branded tracksuit .
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