Corporate CEO Helena Foulkes, a Democratic candidate for governor of Rhode Island, is hiring some of the key players in Gina Raimondo’s circle.
GoLocal first reported in August that Foulkes was going to run for governor. In an interview on GoLocal LIVE in August, top political scientist Jennifer Lawless, the chair of the political science department at the University of Virginia, said that Foulkes has some post-Raimondo challenges as a candidate.
"The challenges are a couple. The first is that she does look like Gina Raimondo 2.0 in terms of her background. This is not to say that they're actually comparable but you've got a business background, you're running as a Democrat, you're wealthy, you've been highly successful -- the other issue is that she doesn't have much in the way of a political record," said Lawless.
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