On Jan. 2, in response to renewed calls from the Rhode Island Republican Party to open an independent Office of Inspector General to investigate waste, fraud, and abuse in government,
Smash. One of the biggest barriers in Rhode Island was knocked over. For more than two hundred years, serving in Congress was an exclusive club made up of white men and just one white woman.
The Rhode Island Ethics Commission voted 5-0 that there is no probable cause to move forward with a complaint filed by the chair of the Rhode Island Republican Party against Rhode Island House Speaker Joe Shekarchi.
The commission voted unanimously, and dismissed a complaint filed by R.I. Republican Party chairman Joe Powers alleging Shekarchi had pushed for a bill that would have benefitted a client of his law firm.