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PROVIDENCE Former Centrals Fall Mayor James Diossa, a leading candidate in the lieutenant governor sweepstakes, has resigned from the board of a company seeking one of the first new marijuana dispensary licenses available in Rhode Island in years.
In response to Journal inquiries, Diossa spokesman Christopher Hunter on Thursday provided a copy of Diossa s January 8 letter of resignation. I hereby resign my position on the Board of Directors of the Edward O. Hawkins Center, Inc. effective on today’s date, Diossa wrote on the day president-elect Joe Biden introduced some of his cabinet nominees, including Governor Gina Raimondo, on stage in Wilmington, Delaware.
PROVIDENCE Deputy House Speaker Charlene Lima is calling for a special election to choose the state s next lieutenant governor in place of the insider political jockeying underway now as Rhode Island faces a mid-term changing of the guard. We must move immediately to take the selection of our next Lt. Governor from the backrooms of politics to the voters of Rhode Island, Lima, D-Cranston, said Tuesday amid questions about the legality of her proposal.
With Gov. Gina Raimondo poised to depart mid-term for a new job in Washington as President-elect Joe Biden s commerce secretary, Lt. Governor Dan McKee is in line to take her place as governor.