PROVIDENCE — The day after Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo surfaced as then President-elect Joe Biden's pick for commerce secretary, a representative of the "unofficial research arm of the Republican Party" began poking into her ethics filings. On Wednesday, Jason Gramitt, executive director of the Rhode Island Ethics Commission, confirmed a request from Allan Blutstein, senior vice president of America Rising, for Raimondo's financial filings during her four-year span as state treasurer. Dated Friday, Jan. 8 at 2:11 p.m., the email read, in part: "Good afternoon. Please accept this email as a request for the financial statements filed by former General Treasurer Gina Raimondo (2010-2014)."