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...Barrett supports a tougher approach to crime and advocates President Clinton's "three strikes and you're out" approach to stopping career criminals...
...Barrett also criticizes Weld's approach to crime...
...Weld will pose as a governor who's tough on crime, but he has cut aid to municipalities so deeply that there are now fewer police on the streets in every Massachusetts city than when he became governor," Barrett says. "He's responsible for people feeling less safe when they walk to the corner store because police presence is drastically reduced...
...Barrett describes himself as "gutsy," a "new type of Democrat--the independent kind, the outspoken kind, the energetic kind" who understands why "some people have accused me of being idealistic...
Like Weld and his Democratic opponents, Barrett favors the right of a woman to an abortion. Unlike his opponents, however, Barrett opposes the death penalty...