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Gina Raimondo

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“Is dishonest and terrible because he just lies to people and says we're bringing back coal, we're bringing back manufacturing, we're bringing back the way it used to be. Not going to come back. And so we gotta, and people kind of know that Have to provide an alternative, they got to believe you. That you will provide some alternative where they can take care of their family”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I focus a lot on growth. So instead of just About how to divide the pie. We do have to focus as much on growing the pie, and that's what I've done in Rhode Island. I do think economic growth is key. But then the problem for the past 50 years has been all Benefits of the growth have gone to too few. And so we have to have a serious discussion at the federal level around raising taxes on the wealthy because we need it and we need to then drive that money into public infrastructure and public education and public transportation. And as I was saying to Jesse, a lot of people will need to be upskilled in order to be able to get a decent higher paying job. I think what President Trump does is”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You still have to tell them come to the table and help us fix these problems. And some of that is helping us figure out what to train young people and all people, mid-career people, so they're constantly up to date on where the jobs are and to being trained for jobs that exist today, not jobs that existed five or ten years ago. To be honest, part of the reason my dad struggled after losing his job at 56 was, What do you do when you're 56 and you've only done one thing? What you have to be able to do is go get retooled and retrained, which is incredibly hard for a job that does exist today. And business has to get to the table, invest, open their pocketbook, help us fund these training programs, and commit to hiring the people. Come out of these whether it's high schools, apprenticeships, colleges, community college.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So now instead of just having, say, body shop and auto mechanical, by the way, those are good jobs too, we have a lot of cyber tech training programs. CVS is a big employer in Rhode Island. So we had CVS adopt one Socket High School, very poor public high school to train these kids to be pharmacy techs. So I think there has to be, and this is something I feel very strongly about, business has to be at the table helping us to solve these problems. I'm as frustrated as anyone with the level of income inequality In this country, and Losing patients with businesses who pay people so little that they are poor enough to be on Medicaid and food stamps”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, great quest and Jesse. So, look, that all comes back to job training, skills, and as I said, making sure every Rhode Islander, every American has the job training in it or education they need to get a good job. For example, I've done a lot around career and technical education in high schools. A lot of that has meant updating what we teach.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People say to me, what's it like to be a Democratic governor in the age of Trump? I'm like, honestly, it's exhausting because you're fighting so many things. You know, you're the last kind of line of defense between him and your citizenry on everything, the environment, healthcare, opioids. So it's an exhausting thing to just fight back constantly. Immigration, refugees. It was unbelievable.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Lot for a tiny state. I'll leave it at that. So look, I'm impatient to be doing more faster, but we're hitting the goals that we set out to. I want to tackle transportation next, and I'm eager to take a leadership role with other governors in my region to come up with a regional transportation climate initiative, because as you all know, 30-40% of emissions are from transportation, and we really haven't done enough there.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And they're worried about it. It's urgent for them. They're going to be alive in 2015 and 2060. And I want them to, and I want, hopefully I will be too, but they'll be having their own families. So the answer is we're doing well. We're actually exceeding the goals that I set out when I started as governor. I said we were going to make our energy supply 10 times cleaner by next year, 2020. And I think we'll be more like 11 times. And so I'm extending the goal so we reach higher. The growth in green jobs has also exceeded expectations. We've seen like 70% increase in increase of green jobs. The wind farm Rhode Island is home to North America's only offshore wind farm. You should come visit to see that just like that. That alone is a reason to visit. But I just procured 400 megawatts of offshore wind energy, which is”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Thank you. You should come back. You should see me after and we'll lure you back to Rhode Island. My only reason I'm even a little bit successful is I get really, really good people who know more than I do to join on board, so I'm serious. We're doing great. You know, look, it's never enough. I'm a mother of teenagers I worry about them and their future.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Advice I always give people figure out what you want to do with the position. Don't run just to run. Do not run just to run. What do you want to do with the job? Like, I wanted to run for treasurer to fix the pension crisis. I wanted to be governor to get our economy going again. And then just go for it”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I'm not sure that I did or that I was, or that I even am, but I. First of all, I was pretty sure I could do a better job than the guys who were doing the job. And when you have the highest unemployment rate in the country, I felt like I have to be able to do better than that. And secondly, I really cared. I knew that I would care more and work more and find the people to help me out. And we would get the job done. So, are you thinking about you might want to run for something? Maybe. You should do it. You should do it. Don't wait until the time is perfect. Don't second guess your abilities. Find something you care a lot about.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know, is the truthful answer. I like being an executive. Don't know that I would be cut out for a legislative branch. I'm committed to Rhode Island, I'll say that. I got three”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm a nerd. Exactly. I am a total nerd good at school. I get it. I'm just telling you, like my dad. There's a lot of people who go to work with a pit in their stomach every day stressed that they're either going to lose their job to someone who's coming in from another country or they're going to be asked to do more for less because an immigrant is willing to work for less. And I think we just have to acknowledge that people feel that way and don't try to convince them that they shouldn't.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so here's what I think about that. Stay on the issues that matter most to people in their daily lives. You talked before about immigration. There's a lot of fear about immigration. I don't think we can dismiss that. People are stressed out that they're going to lose their jobs to an immigrant who will do their job for less money. You can show me 52 charts that explain to me that that isn't going to happen.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would say somewhat to a lesser extent, let me say I think she's running an extraordinary campaign. I mean, she is the front runner because she's earning it. She is out there, she is hustling, she is organizing, she is a believer. I think she is an authentic believer, a brilliant woman with great policy ideas. I worry in a general election that many, many, many people in this country do have health care, which they're working for them. I'm not sure Medicare for all is the right way to go. I think certainly, like I already said, what's happening in Rhode Island, the Affordable Care Act is working here. It's not working in a lot of other states. We have to do better. I think Medicare for all is a tough message in a general election.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You never, yeah, that's bad. Yeah, but he says I've done okay. And you all should come to Rhode Island for an Italian meal. The question was who are the lefties and why do I worry? Because what I already said earlier, you know. I don't want to pick on Bernie when he's in the hospital and hope he gets better quickly. When you say, as I was referring to there, I worry about free this, free that, Medicare for all.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I wish that it had ended a sentence sooner. I'd like to say in my defense we had that interview over several glasses of wine at a restaurant. No to all politicians don't do that.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Come visit us in the warm months. But it's going well. I feel I'm constantly at war with the president to protect the Affordable Care Act for Rhode Islanders. When he was first starting to unravel it, I did everything I could working with our federal delegation and protesting and making noise. We passed an individual mandate now in Rhode Island. We have the individual mandate in state law. We're using the proceeds of that money for reinsurance product to keep our exchange stable. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think that's what people want to see us fighting for them keeping their job, keeping their healthcare, going to college, take on the president for that because I think that'll let people know, yeah, I get it. I get your life's really hard. And I want to try to make it better for you.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're making. No, it's exactly. And it's similar actually to this impeachment, what we're talking about. If you read the New York Times as I did this morning, it's what there is in the Times, you know, cover to cover. And listen, it's important. I'm not trying to say it's not. I think we got to meet people where they are. And like, for example, in Rhode Island, I'm a believer in the Affordable Care Act. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's working in Rhode Island. 96% of Rhode Islanders have health care. We have a state-based exchange, which is working. I announced a decrease in premiums on the exchange this year. So 98% of kids have coverage.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was like, thanks for the pick me up, Frank. You know what it's like in those last two weeks? I said, you know, I don't think I am. What are you thinking? And he said, you know, like they hate your social media sucks. They hate you. Your Twitter. They're all over you on Twitter. Your Instagram terrible. They hate you on Facebook. And by the way, it was right. If you had read my Twitter, if you had read the Twitter commentary about me in the weeks before the primary or the Facebook commentary, You would have said, Jeannie, you're going down. I won by 22 points. So there's a lesson in there for everyone.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had a primary last year. I was re elected last year. I had a primary Quote unquote progressive and then a general. Two, three weeks before my primary Frank called and he said, Gina, you're getting killed. You're going down, something to that effect.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Again, Eli's. Point A, he's a liar. But look, people to say that things are getting better isn't really true for a lot of people.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“First of all, he lies to people and says, I'll make it all better. Second of all, he doesn't try to deny it. Deny how bad things are for them. Although it does”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I think we've got to take them on on those issues because he's bad for America and he's hurting people. And any candidate we have running will be better than him.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I wouldn't, but my point is that should be how we take them on. If we only take them on around impeachment, I worry that that's kind of a, I hate to say high class issue, but it's an issue that's, you know, pick up any paper today or read Twitter. It's an obsession, and it should be. These are grave, grave, grave historic issues. But again, if you're the average person worried because your kid has an ear infection and you can't pay to take your daughter to the doctor, and if you don't show up at work, you're not going to get paid and your car might break down. You're not thinking about impeachment. You're thinking about getting paid, getting your kid to the doctor, and putting food on your table.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exact I think we should throw Trump out of office because he's trying to take away Americans' health care. I think we should throw Trump out of office because he's Hurting manufacturers and farmers and taking away people's jobs. I could go on and on. In other words, he is her peach.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's noise. I think it's noise. He said she said politicians. Oh, they're fighting again. And we've got to cut through that. I cannot emphasize enough the daily financial stress of the average person. Even people who are making a decent living. Let's say you're making, say you're doing very well, you're making six figures. Paying for childcare, you paying a lot of out-of-pocket costs for healthcare, you probably have student loan debt You probably don't have a mortgage. You may have a mortgage, but people today can't even buy a house because they have so much debt. So you have a mortgage, you have a rent payment. Housing is a huge issue, huge issue. You are trying to get through the day or the week or the month. So that's what I hear. Much more so than impeachment.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do. Yeah, I do. Look at it. I also say it's complicated. She has a hard job and I trust what she's doing. I think she's terrific. I think the best she can do and the right thing. I also worry about how it is going to play on Main Street.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I am. I'm saying I am angry and disturbed and disgusted with what's going on in this White House. And I unlock step with the speaker. I'm happy she held off, but I understand why she's doing what she's doing.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, no, no. Fill in the blank. I think it's completely false. You were in the White House. Ask yourself, imagine a world in which President Obama picked up the phone and called the leader of another country and tried to exchange political favors for security aid. It's unfathomable. So, you know, look”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And true. Know again, when you're a governor, especially of a small state, but any state, you talk to people every day. It's a gift to be out of the belt way, I think. I really do. You were saying earlier in the green room, we're all kind of weary of current events and current political issues, which are extreme. When you're out in the coffee shop in Rhode Island, it's honestly not what's coming up. What's coming up is last night I saw a woman. She's dressed that her husband's hours just got cut back, and that's a big financial strain on her family. I'm never going to be able to buy a house because I have all the student debt. Where do I find 200 bucks to pay the co-pay that's required to take my kid to the doctor? This is real. This is every day. We better have the candidate that convinces people they can do something about that.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Illinois, yeah Forget that. I'm seeing JB tonight. So, yeah, exactly. Flips and places like Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, where it was thought that you couldn't really elect a Democratic governor. And the way we did it is by being very focused on the things people care about. Healthcare, jobs, student debt. And we convinced the electorates of those states that our candidate was going to actually do something for them in those issues that they care most about. And I, so if you”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I would say I think the folks running in 2020 could learn a thing or two from the governors who won in 18. We had a fantastic year last year, we being Democratic governors. We elected Democratic governors in Wisconsin and Kansas and Maine, places that people had really counted us out. I think we're going to elect a Democratic governor in Kentucky this time around. It's a close race, but I feel good about it. And Michigan, great, great new Democratic governor in Michigan. Wisconsin, and we took out in a couple of meetings.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So far they've been great, actually. By the way, if you're a teacher in Provence, chances are you don't feel supported, you might not feel safe. We haven't been doing a good enough job with security. You teach in a building with terrible building conditions. You don't have enough professional development. So I think there's, we're going to do this in a way that supportive of teachers.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Only thing that got me to where I am is education, period. It is still the great equalizer, and we have to do this. So it'll be hard. We will make mistakes. It'll be controversial.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So there's no one thing I think it's a new and higher quality curriculum, much more and better teacher development. There are probably some schools that have to be merged or closed. They're just so far gone physically in what's happening. I mean, it's going to be a long process. But it was the scariest thing to me is how much worse the schools have become in the past five or six years. So they're not only bad, but they're bad at getting worse. They are 60% Latino, the vast, vast majority free and reduced lunch. Our kids, we're lucky enough, they have a choice. Kids in Providence don't have a choice. They got one school to go to, and it's on us to make it a good school so they get a good education. And I can't help, we just told you my whole story.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is, yeah, someday I should try something easier Again, I just think it's a moral imperative and an economic imperative.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But in the end, the legislature voted practically unanimously for the bill that I put forward. Like we got it done. We solved a problem. It was tough. I think everybody was part of it. But it was the right thing to do. And today, I can say to you we're bringing about tuition-free community college, our unemployment rate is as low as it's ever been. We're investing in our roads, rebuilding kindergartens.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Change your constitution. My view is this is an everybody issue. Again, I don't know your situation, so I joked about it before, but I'm not an expert on your numbers. I can just tell you my situation. It wasn't going to fix itself on its own. The longer you waited, the more people would get hurt. And at the time, my kids were in Providence Public School, my daughter was in first grade, her first grade teacher was unbelievable, like incredible. And she was in her mid-30s, and I just couldn't look at her. I knew her pension wasn't gonna be there when she needed it, and I knew I had to do something, and I couldn't look at the little girl who couldn't do after school soccer. Like, I just felt we got to find a solution here. And we did. By the way, it was contentious, lots of protests against me. Wicked primary when I ran for government.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was some of that The magnitude of the hole, and I can only speak for Rhode Island, but the magnitude of the hole relative to how few wealthy people we had, it was like apples and oranges. So we did look, it does take both. But the fact of the matter is, even if you did that, And of course, you could do more of that in a big, wealthier state like Illinois, you still have to restructure the system.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“By the way, they None of those people did anything wrong. At the time I was doing that, Chris Christie was governor of New Jersey, and he was doing his own version of pension reform. So I watched what he was doing, and he would go into the teacher's hall and say things like pretty over-the-top horrible, I think horrible things. You know, you're lazy, quit your whining. Whatever. I would say essentially, I'm sorry, but I'm just here to tell you the math doesn't add up. And if you're a 35-year-old school, And I would say if I were you, I'd be mad too. You did nothing wrong. You played by the rules, you paid in every single week, you did what people told you. The system is broken”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That the money would be there. I'm not going to lie to you. I don't think it will be. And back to my dad, I would go into a lot of big, angry, crowded union halls. I talked to anybody. I didn't shy away from it. I went straight in and said, we got a problem. These are the facts. I'd like to fix it. They were not happy as an understatement. My dad said to me, I wouldn't be happy either. You're telling me take away their pension.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You could move anyway, but look it, let me say this, it's a hard issue. At the time that I decided to do it, I felt there was no alternative because it was dishonest to tell people, hardworking school teachers and public employees that their pension was going to be there because I didn't think it was. And my heart broke for, I remember seeing a little kid, and she was sad because they were cutting middle school sports in her school. By the way, since we did pension reform, they've reinstated middle school sports at that school district. But I will go into my tagline was this is, I'm just telling you the truth, please don't be mad at me. Be mad at all the guys before me who didn't tell you the truth and led you to believe that this was true.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To make you feel better by one number, which was worse than Mht Island, and I always look over and it would always be Illinois. So I felt slightly less alone.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no doubt about it. Absolutely true. By the way, I know about your Problems because when I was the treasurer I would stay up late and really try to understand the problem and you pour over all these actuarial tables and this, that and the other. And Rhode Island was always among the very worst. But occasionally I would find one”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it was visceral for me. I put the paper down. I said, Andy, I'm going to run for office. I'm going to do something about this because it was the public bus that got me to high school, the public library where my grandpa went to learn English. My dad went to college on a GI bill, public schools. And it just felt to me like people were getting a raw deal. Turns out a big part of the reason that there weren't enough resources for schools, buses, after school sports was because our pension system was a disaster, terribly underfunded, and sucking a lot of resources away. So I decided to run for treasurer. It was a financial job. I was actually qualified. Refreshing, and I could go after the pension issue, which I did.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To the mayor that went to jail. So either corruption or lack of vision, you know, like I already talked about. So I have been thinking I would want to do something. Anyway, one day I was reading the paper. And my husband was constantly saying, Gina, you either need to stop complaining or do something about it, fair. So one day I was reading the newspaper and there was an article in the paper, big profile article, about how on account of budget shortfalls, certain public library branches were going to be closed. Library hours were going to be cut, no nights, no weekends, the bus service was going to be curtailed.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If I could be elected by 10-year-old girls, I think I'd get 90% of the vote. It's a big fan group, which I love, actually. Anyway, I had been feeling Frustrated and disappointed, truthfully, with our state's leaders. I just was kind of sick of either corruption.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was the trigger point. I'll tell you, there was a very specific trigger point. I had been running my business, raising my family. I have two kids. I have a son and a daughter. My brother and sister and all their kids still live in Rhode Island. My parents, my dad was alive at the time. So it's a great thing. It's an awesome scene in the summer to go to the beach and see all the cousins running around. So it was all great. But anyway. I had been feeling a little restless.”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. No. And he was like, no, no, no, you can't be serious about that. There are 49 other states. And like, that's pretty much the deal. But he loves it”
2019-10-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 350 – Gov. Gina Raimondo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source