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Liz Beretta-Perik is the handpicked successor to Rep. Joseph McNamara. The state party votes tonight.

He just may be the most important Rhode Island political figure you don’t know. When Democrat candidates up and down the ballot stick their toe in the water to figure out if they have a …

  We can file this one other “issues the activist media will ignore.” Some of President Joe Biden’s cabinet picks have some troubling issues as far as ethics are concerned. Fox News published a report detailing some of the problematic ethical issues that have followed some of Biden’s nominees. According to Fox, “Biden’s Commerce Secretary pick, Gina Raimondo, Homeland Security pick Alejandro Mayorkas and Labor Secretary pick Marty Walsh have all faced questions about favoritism or conflicts of interest in the last decade.” Adam Laxalt, outside counsel for Americans for Public ...

President Joe Biden took office Wednesday, but ethics concerns still trail some of his Cabinet picks. Biden's Commerce Secretary pick, Gina Raimondo, Homeland Security pick Alejandro Mayorkas and Labor Secretary pick Marty Walsh have all faced questions about favoritism or conflicts of interest in the last decade. "It's extraordinary how many of these top Biden nominees are already under an ethics cloud. We're going back to the future, as many of these former Obama officials are bringing their baggage back with them," Adam Laxalt, outside counsel to Americans for Public Trust and the ...

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 ...