BREAKING: Tom Sgouros Drops out of Treasurers Race

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Matt Jerzyk, GoLocalProv MINDSETTER™

One of the smartest and must humble public intellectuals that I have met - Tom Sgouros - announced today that he is suspending his campaign for General Treasurer and supporting Gina Raimondo.  In his classy departure, Tom acknowledged that he and Gina shared many of the same progressive principles:

"Were the differences between my positions and Gina's more substantial, I would not hesitate to push forward with every ounce of energy I could muster. But I have come to two conclusions. First, those differences are much too small for me in good conscience to ask people to join an aggressive campaign against her. Second, our state suffers from a shortage of advocates for sensible public policy. Rhode Island will be better served by having another advocate for smarter government in the arena with me than by having two of us battle it out in the primary. I'm certainly not going to shut up, but I am going to suspend my campaign for treasurer in order to welcome Gina Raimondo to the community of people trying to make a positive change in Rhode Island. She will be able to make the treasurer's office into a source of exciting policy innovations, and I expect great things from her. I will happily vote for her in September's primary, and I hope you will, too."

With an array of contested and bruising Democratic primaries expected in the Governor's race, the AG's race, the Mayor's race, most recently, the LG's race, this is good news for progressives and Democrats.

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