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GOP group, Fox News focusing on Raimondo ahead of Cabinet hearing Katherine Gregg, The Providence Journal © Brian Amaral, Kris Craig, The Providence Journ Published Caption: Raimondo [Kris Craig, The Providence Journal] Original Caption: Raimondo 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 ...

That Bob Walsh quote, from a 2016 story I did on Raimondo, is one glimpse. Today, a few more on Gina Raimondo’s personal side. I remember being surprised when I first sat down with her for a one-on-one in the governor’s office. She had an image as stern, so I expected that. The same “stern” behind her telling everyone to “knock it off” over bad pandemic behavior. So I asked her if she was a humorless policy wonk. It got a laugh. “Almost every day, people will say to me some version of, ‘You’re so much nicer in real life.’”

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo sparked criticism this week after she was photographed attending a wine and paint event at a Providence bar just four days after urging others to avoid nonessential activities. “Please, stay home except for essential activities & wear a mask anytime you’re with people you don’t live with,” the Democratic governor tweeted to her 92,000 followers on Dec. 7. On Dec. 11, Mrs. Raimondo was spotted with her husband, Andy Moffit, at a wine and paint night hosted at Barnaby’s Public House downtown. While the photo, taken by Erica Oliveras, shows Mrs. Raimondo...

Rhode Island Governor Attends Wine and Paint Event After Urging People to Avoid Nonessential Activities Newsweek 12/17/2020 Matthew Impelli © Joseph Prezioso/Getty Governor Gina Raimondo (C) addresses protesters, saying a prayer with them and telling them she will listen and work with them, after they called for her to come out and hear their demands during a Black Lives Matter rally on the steps of the State House in Providence, Rhode Island on June 5, 2020. Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo was photographed last week attending a wine and paint event, just a few days a...

"Certainly if we had enough money, I would have thought about shutting more of them," Raimondo said in an interview about her future policy goals. "Every decision to shut down has impacts," she said. "Every time, you know you are saving lives but ruining livelihoods." Raimondo has faced steady criticism from small business advocates for not spending more of the state's $1.25 billion in federal CARES Act aid on helping businesses, but said she's proud she kept $100 million of the money to help with this month's "pause" in activity. The tension between viral suppression and commerce was on di...