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Todays panel is pivoting left, how we win by standing up for working families. We want to take a look at what happened in the last election and some lessons we learned and where we need to have a bigger and bolder message as opposed to maybe a message of incrementalism. One of the things the progressive caucus has done for a number of years is the progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those kinds of big ideas trying to move the ball forward in a very big bold way to try to give us the policy solutions that people really are asking us for, but also how to help electorally ...

And Chuck Schumer tiptoes into Electoral Count Act reform.

Governor Gina Raimondo In a Friday afternoon news dump, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo announced that she is nominating former top aide and sometimes acting Chief of Staff David Cruise to a seat on the Rhode Island Superior Court. Raimondo’s office said, "I am writing to share that several members of the Governor’s cabinet and senior staff will be leaving their positions." In addition, in the last minute resignations and the appointment of Cruise, a former State Senator and presently a state house lobbyist, she announced she is appointing: - Krystle Guillory Tadesse to Chair the Judi...

Raimondo continues making nominations on her way out the door Gov. Gina Raimondo nominated her former legislative director to a Superior Court judgeship on Friday as she prepares to leave office, while several top aides announced they were leaving her administration. David Cruise, a former state senator and aide to the chief of staff to Gov. Bruce Sundlun before his stint in Raimondo's office, was Raimondo's choice for a lifetime spot on the Superior Court bench. If confirmed by the Senate, he would replace Judge Bennett Gallo, who retired last February from the $170,545 a year post. Crui...

McKee has staffing choices to make when he moves into governor's office PROVIDENCE — By the end of this week, Lieutenant Governor Dan McKee may see his seven-member staff swell to more than 50. That includes the 40-plus employees on current Gov. Gina Raimondo's $4-million office payroll at salaries ranging from $43,153 to $193,758, plus the handful reporting to her who are on the payrolls of other state agencies. For example: McKee, who is queued up to take over as governor when Raimondo wins anticipated confirmation as President Joe Biden's commerce secretary, has his own chief of staff...