🇺🇸 USA 1d ago · Robert T.F. Downes

Commentary: What price political influence? A lot more in Rhode Island.

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Commentary: What price political influence? A lot more in Rhode Island.
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The Rhode Island General Assembly should consider examining whether restrictions on political campaign contributions from lobbyists are adequate under the state’s campaign finance laws. (Getty illustration)Election Day is fast approaching, and Rhode Islanders are besieged by political advertising again. Television commercials intrude upon the evening news, campaign literature accumulates at doorsteps, and social media feeds become an unrelenting parade of candidates’ promises. Beneath the spec

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