November 2, 2018, by Ezme Webb-Hines || On exactly what grounds are Conservative Democrats, Rhode Island House Speaker Nicholas Mattielloand Senate President Dominick Ruggiero, blocking the Reproductive Heath Care Act (RHCA) from consideration? That it’s unnecessary? I remember a motion congratulating the mid‐season New England Patriots passing the General Assembly earlier this year when I looked online at what my local representative, Kenneth Mendonca (Republican, District 72, Portsmouth), had been doing on my tax‐paid dime (evidently, not a lot).
