Both cited sources are reachable and were verified by direct fetch. Source 1 (WHDH 7News) documents THIS promise with all three quoted fragments appearing VERBATIM: "the MBTA hired 1,480 new employees in 2023 and promoted 511 others to boost its workforce," "the MBTA added a net 730 new full-time employee equivalents to its roster, pushing the total headcount above 7,000," and "She pledged at the time to fund the hiring of 1,000 additional workers focused on MBTA operations within her first year." This confirms both the pledge and that gross hiring (1,480) exceeded the 1,000 target. LEADERSHIP check for CHAMPIONED is satisfied: this is an executive initiative Healey personally pledged and drove — Source 2 (CommonWealth Beacon) confirms "GOV. MAURA HEALEY has gone on a hiring spree at the MBTA" — not a mere vote or expression of support, so no downgrade to FULL/PARTIAL on the leadership axis. Two verification caveats keep this from being a clean uphold: (1) Source 2's originally cited quote was a PARAPHRASE, not verbatim — the article actually reads "By the end of 2023, the number of employees had risen to 7,063 -- 11 percent higher than the previous year"; the facts (7,063; 11%) are accurate so it is not fabricated, and I replaced it with the verbatim text; (2) neither source verifies the "funding in her first budget" mechanism (the rating concedes it came via a supplemental), and net workforce growth (+730) fell below 1,000 if "additional" is read as net rather than gross hires. Because the promise verb is "hire" and the pledge speaks of "the hiring of 1,000," the gross reading (1,480, exceeded) is the more faithful one, so the outcome does not overstate the evidence. CHAMPIONED holds; confidence held at 0.70 to reflect the paraphrased Source 2 quote and the unverified first-budget mechanism.