PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island newcomer Ashley Kalus has officially launched her Republican campaign for governor with a video that casts her as an "outsider" with "gigantic aspirations" for her new home state.
"The days of ‘I know a guy’ are over,'' she vowed. "It works for the insiders, but I bet it doesn’t work out for you."
Her pitch: "We need leaders with solutions to make Rhode Island a more affordable place to live, work and raise a family. ... We need parental involvement in our kids’ education. ... And we need to fund the police and keep our neighborhoods safe."
"This is the time to write the greatest chapter in Rhode Island’s history,” she said.
With no established Republican in the state champing at the bit to run for governor, Kalus, 39, is at this point the state GOP's best and perhaps only hope of regaining the office it has not held since the Carcieri era ended under the cloud of 38 Studios more than a decade ago.
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