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Healey and Patrick meet supporters

BOSTON Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick is lashing back at Republican opponent Kerry Healey for her television ads painting him as soft on crime.

About 55-hundred supporters rallied on Boston Common today to hear Patrick slam Healey for practicing what he called "the politics of fear."

He touted his own campaign's "politics of inclusion."

Patrick exhorted his supporters to work ever harder in the final 23 days of his campaign push toward the November Seventh general election.

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Governor Healey campaigned today in Quincy, where she continued to promote her plan to roll back the state income tax to five percent.

She also criticized Patrick's support for college tuition subsidies for illegal aliens.

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