‘Tonight we celebrate, tomorrow we get to work’: Gov. Healey outlines future at inauguration bash

Just hours after Maura Healey was sworn in as governor, the party kicked off at TD Garden to celebrate this historic moment.

It was an inauguration party unlike any other to celebrate the first woman and first openly gay person to be elected governor of Massachusetts.

Several performers took the stage, from local high school bands to the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus and headliner Brandi Carlisle.

The Garden was decked out in basketballs for the theme “moving the ball forward.”

“We are committed to truly being a Commonwealth a Common-wealth that looks after one another, that lifts up one another and take care of one another,” said Gov. Maura Healey on stage. “We know with any great team, and I will always be a point guard, it’s about the assist.”

Both Gov. Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll are former basketball players, promising to work as a team to tackle issues like housing, climate change and transportation for the state.

“Tonight we celebrate, tomorrow we get to work,” said Gov. Healey. “And know that Kim and I, we’re going to work our butts off as we did a long time ago on basketball courts for the health and wellbeing, the prosperity, the future of this great state”

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