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Raimondo’s campaign, like any other, has to endure the outrageous, the distorted, the flat-out nuts. This week, it brought our attention to a video making the YouTube rounds in which Raimondo is condemned for her announced support of a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Watch Gina Raimondo stand up to gun extremists. Then click here to sign our petition to ban military-style weapons in Rhode Island.
Gina Raimondo talks to Bill Rappleye about how to solve Rhode Island's problems.
This week on Newsmakers: Treasurer Gina Raimondo discusses why she's running for governor of Rhode Island, what could happen to the pension talks and why she supports raising the minimum wage.
At least five Latino elected officials are supporting General Treasurer Gina M. Raimondo in her bid for governor.
PAWTUCKET – Gina Raimondo has officially launched her campaign for Rhode Island governor by outlining what she calls “a bold progressive” policy agenda designed to jump-start Rhode Island’s economy.
PAWTUCKET — As supporters cheered, and protesters lined up outside to jeer, State Treasurer Gina Raimondo Monday spelled out in broad brush strokes her ideas for “bringing good jobs to the state, rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, reinvesting in education … and making our communities safer.” At an event billed as the official kickoff for her previously announced campaign for governor, Raimondo suggested the state dedicate a slice of its sales tax, as Massachusetts does, to the renovation and rebuilding of dilapidated public schools.
Gina Raimondo unveiled the next phase in her campaign for governor by outlining a series of broad policy ideas -- emphasizing the economy, education, and infrastructure -- before a packed room of supporters Monday morning at Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket.
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) - Treasurer Gina Raimondo kicked off her campaign to become the next governor of Rhode Island on Monday morning with a pledge to reinvigorate the state’s economy by using the same approach she took in spearheading the 2011 pension overhaul.
“No one person has all the answers, but together we can deliver Rhode Island from all that ails us,” Raimondo told a crowd of supporters estimated at more than 300 who gathered at Hope Artiste Village, the former Hope Webbing Company mill complex in Pawtucket that now houses boutique firms.
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Treasurer Gina Raimondo formally kicked off her campaign for governor Monday, vowing to improve schools, boost government efficiency and bring a new approach to efforts to spur the state’s lagging economy.
