May 24, 2019, Steve Ahlquist ||| The chanting, honking horns of automobiles and the Extraordinary Rendition Band was almost deafening outside Maria’s Cucina, a restaurant of Federal Hill where Democratic Party Senate Leadership held a fundraiser and rubbed elbows with corporate lobbyists for cash donations. Starting at six and lasting over two hours, pro-choice advocates, organized by The Womxn Project, pressured Senate President Dominick Ruggerio (Democrat, District 4, Providence) to make good on his promise to bring legislation that will codify Roe v Wade into Rhode Island State law.
