Healey raised thousands from Florida lawyers last month, records show

Gov. Maura Healey traveled to Miami for roughly 24 hours last month to hold a pair of fundraisers for her campaign and the state Democratic party, a trip that appeared to net tens of thousands of dollars in donations from attorneys in Florida, state records show.

Lawyers from Morgan & Morgan, one of the largest personal injury law firms in the country, donated just over $20,000 to Healey and another roughly $35,000 to the Massachusetts Democratic Party in the days surrounding the September fundraisers, according to state campaign finance records.

Healey, a first-term Democrat running for reelection, raised nearly $268,000 overall in September. That included more than $20,000 from the Morgan & Morgan lawyers, who all listed Florida addresses except for one in Massachusetts and two in Kentucky, the data shows.

Attorney John Morgan, the billionaire Florida-based owner of Morgan & Morgan, donated $1,000 to the governor on Sept. 17 and another $2,000 to the Massachusetts Democratic Party on Sept. 15, the data shows.

Morgan and other attorneys at the firm did not respond to requests for comment.

Healey said she does not keep track of individual donations to her campaign.

“You can talk to my committee. I don’t know who I raised it from,” she told WBUR at the State House Thursday. “I don’t know specifically what came in in terms of amounts. I’m running for reelection, guys. I’m going to be raising money.”

Morgan is no stranger to politics, including in Massachusetts.

He donated $1,000 to Healey in 2022, when she was first running for the top job on Beacon Hill, according to campaign finance data.

Morgan has previously floated himself as a candidate for governor of Florida in 2026, POLITICO reported in May. And he was a major backer of ballot initiatives to raise that state’s minimum wage and legalize medical cannabis.

Healey’s trip was not previously disclosed because the governor’s office keeps her out-of-state movements secret until after the fact. A copy of her calendar shows she traveled to Florida on Sept. 14, and her campaign confirmed she held two fundraisers while in the Sunshine State.

Contributions from just over two dozen attorneys who listed Morgan & Morgan as their employer were posted to the state’s campaign finance database within days of Healey’s Florida trip. A majority of the lawyers donated the maximum amount allowed to Healey under state law.

A spokesperson for the Massachusetts Democratic Party declined to comment on the contributions, and party chair Steve Kerrigan did not respond to multiple requests for comment.