BOSTON (AP) - Republican Charlie Baker and Democrat Martha Coakley sharpened their attacks on each other during their next-to-last televised debate for Massachusetts governor.
Coakley defended herself against a Boston Globe report in which former inspector general Gregory Sullivan said Coakley urged him to pull back from an investigation into former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi, who was later convicted on corruption charges.
Coakley said during Monday's debate on NECN that Sullivan is "either flat-out lying or flat-out wrong."
Coakley also noted that Baker had accepted campaign donations from a DiMasi associate, businessman Richard Vitale, who was charged along with DiMasi and acquitted.
Baker said he would return the $375 he received from Vitale this year.
The two also sparred on range of other issues, from welfare reform to taxes.
The election is Nov. 4.
