On primary day, he took only 33.5% of the vote to Raimondo’s 57%. She in turn accused Brown of financial irregularities during his failed Senate campaign. Brown attacked her for her fundraising and connections to big corporations and lobbyists. His first campaign for governor was marked by enmity between him and Raimondo, the incumbent. More recently, Brown, who lives in Providence with his wife and two teenage children, has worked to build the organization now called Renew US, which advocates for state-level climate policies while also aiming to address racial and socioeconomic inequities. He continued to work for the group after returning to Rhode Island. And the session that just wrapped up in June has been heralded as the most productive on environmental policy in recent memory.Īfter his term as secretary of state, he moved to Washington, where he lived from 2008 to 2012, and led Global Zero, a nuclear-weapons nonproliferation organization. Just months later, after years of inaction on climate change, legislators passed a landmark law to make reductions in carbon emissions mandatory. The impact was almost immediate in areas like the environment. They share a host of core positions that include a $19-an-hour minimum wage, a 4% annual cap on rent increases and a shutdown of the fossil-fuel infrastructure in the Port of Providence.Ĭandidates from the co-op won eight House and Senate races in the 2020 election, helping push the General Assembly to the left. Cynthia Mendes, who is running for lieutenant governor, is campaigning on a joint ticket - not the norm in Rhode Island.īut then both are carrying the banner of the Political Co-op, as are 29 others seeking seats in the General Assembly and on the Providence and Pawtucket city councils. The Bristol campus is just south of the Interstate 95 corridor, about 65 miles from Boston and 200 miles from New York City. Upending the state’s political establishment has been the goal since he cofounded the left-leaning Rhode Island Political Cooperative after his failed bid for governor in 2018, which he lost, badly, in the primary to Raimondo. Located on the waterfront in the town of Bristol, Rhode Island, Roger Williams University, chartered in 1956, blends state-of-the-art, air-conditioned academic and residential facilities with a historic New England setting. In the kickoff video for his campaign, he talked about a revolution.
And tuition will remain frozen at this rate for up to three years, as long as the student remains continuously enrolled full time.If there’s one takeaway from Brown’s bid for office, it’s that he sees his candidacy as part of something much larger. For the 2018–2019 academic year, RWU Law has fixed its tuition at $35,735, making us the best-priced ABA-accredited private law school in the Northeast-and one of the best legal education values on the entire East Coast. Today, the Affordable Excellence Tuition Guarantee remains in force, and the savings are significant. The Fall issue is devoted to topics of national interest. The Law Review publishes three issues each year.
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