video: Tolman Debuts First Television Ad in Campaign for Attorney General

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

GoLocalWorcester News Team

Warren Tolman – a Democratic candidate for Attorney General – has debuted his first television advertisement in his campaign, ensuring women’s access to healthcare and requiring smart gun technology.

In the ad, Tolman speaks outside of 1842 Beacon St., Brookline, one of the two women’s health clinics where a gunman opened fired in 1994. Additionally, Tolman speaks outside the Massachusetts State House, where he co-sponsored the original buffer zone law to offer protection to women seeking healthcare.

“I'm Warren Tolman and as Attorney General, I'll focus on gun violence and violence against women,” said Tolman in the ad. “I won't wait to require fingerprint trigger locks on new guns sold. And if you endanger women at a health clinic, you'll be prosecuted.”

Tolman has vowed to uphold the terms of the new safe access bill, "Act to Promote Public Safety and Protect Access to Reproductive Health Care Facilities," following the U.S. Supreme Court's invalidation of the state's 2007 law.

Tolman has released a comprehensive plan to use the Attorney General's Office to protect women's rights - ensuring access to reproductive healthcare, creating an Office on Violence Against Women to take action on domestic violence, and closing the pay equity gap. He is also the only candidate, Democrat or Republican, willing to use the authority of the Attorney General's Office to mandate smart gun technology on new guns sold in Massachusetts.

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