Oh I agree, he’s got no shot, and as glad as I’d be to see him lose another, I’d rather not vote for someone based on “they aren’t Alan Fung”.

and winning.

Not living in the correct place has not stopped Rhode Islanders from running.

Do you work for free?

Worked super hard as mayor, lying his ass off takes a heavy toll on a man. Let finances crumble and ran out as fast as he could.

Speaking of wrong district...I believe De La Cruz and Chippendale would have to move to run, because they live in D2. I think Newberry is a N. Smithfield resident, but if he's in Burrillville, he'd have to move too.

All about the Benjamins

To Harvard for sure.

$200M is a rounding error or market fluctuation.

Brett Smiley just sounds like a Batman villain. I mean he might be.

$53.2B put some respect on that name. $200 million buys at least 1/4 of a new library wing or at least the 1 ply toilet paper for one bathroom stall for the school year!

Super quick check off articles and endowment office audit PDFs Brown:$6.5B (2022) RISD: $442M (2022) Providence: $320M (2022) JWU: $319M (2022) NEIT: $280M (2022) Bryant: $228M (2022) RIU: $218M (2021) RWU: $103M (2022) Salve: $81.6M (2022) RIC: $33.4M (2018)

CCRI is a public state school but their FY2023 budget request is $139.5M (not including any supplemental requests). $58.1m from the state, $61M from tuition and fees, $8M from the school own coffers. That is a $5.9M or 4.4% increase from FY2022.

Pay walls are a fuckin plague.

He doesn’t live in the district. He could move, but as it stands today he could not run for this seat.

I seriously doubt Folkes would be interested. She's an executive, not a bench player. Why would she give up her current job to go to the shitshow that the House is, not to mention the pay cut. Governor...yeah. Rep...I'll be very surprised.

Makes sense. He also may have taken a look at his workplace over the past month and said NFW, especially with a viable alternative waiting for him.

I have the same read. He was on the rise, but the change in Democratic leadership doesn't necessarily want to move with him. This is a good option for him. It still provides a leadership position, a healthy salary, and now he's walking distance from his restaurant.

I'd like to see Cynthia Mendes run.

Nibbles Woodaway

That would be hilarious. She could just like crudely update any leftover signage/literature to say Congress instead of Governor, kinda like how Magaziner did last year

Damn I hope you're right, but I wouldn't put it past him. The guy just can't take no for an answer.

...and maybe he also took a look at his workplace for the next 2 years and said NFW.

This made me chuckle 😂

Without a doubt. If he couldn't win D2, he has zero chance at the D1 seat.

Well, he was successful in that.

Yeah, it looks like Steinberg just announced his resignation at RIF, opening up the job.