In Tuesday’s election, RI elected more women to office than ever before! Congratulations.
The one disappointment among the great successes of the night was that 3,421 people in District 15 voted for Representative Nicolas Mattiello – fewer votes than many other reps got, yet still enough to send him to the State House, with a margin of 300 votes. While these votes may be enough to send him to the State House for another term, that does not mean he is fit to be Speaker.
Your phone calls can remind members of the Rhode Island House that Rep. Mattiello kept a sexual harasser in power, covered it up and lied about it. He said bringing the RHCA to the floor would take up all the oxygen in the room. He said there was no real threat to Roe v. Wade, when in fact there were 14 pending court cases that could undermine Roe v. Wade.
Representative Mattiello is clearly out of step with this state and our values. We respectfully ask that members of the RI State House vote for new leadership that will be open and inclusive. That status quo must end!
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**We want to see him NOT get reinstated for simple reasons like:
**For more specific issues in the news as well the 48-hours since being elected and secret-ness of this meeting today read below!
Nicholas Mattiello should not be reinstated as Speaker of the House by his colleagues because:
