GoLocalProv | Politics | Rising Star of Rhode Island GOP, House Minority Leader Filippi Won’t Run for Reelection

Friday, June 24, 2022

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Blake Filippi — the Home Minority Chief — and the Rhode Island Republican get together’s high star introduced Thursday evening that he won’t search reelection.

Simply months early, high Republicans in Rhode Island and on the nationwide degree have been urging Filippi to run for governor, however he refused to leap into the race.

Filippi, a lawyer by coaching has been main the hassle to try to power the Rhode Island Basic Meeting to be extra clear.

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He’s the lead plaintiff in a serious lawsuit tied to the hassle to power transparency on the legislature’s Joint Committee on Legislative Companies.

Filippi wrote the next message to supporters:

To the Individuals of Block Island, Charlestown, South Kingstown and Westerly: 

Thanks for the chance to function your State Consultant these previous eight years. I like our communities, and this has been probably the most rewarding experiences in my life. 

Whereas most of us disagreed on coverage typically, and a few of us disagreed many occasions, I at all times endeavored to grasp your perspective, and clearly convey mine. Thanks for difficult my viewpoints, and allowing me to problem yours. Your help empowered me make many principled stands. The a number of I’m most happy with:

·      In 2019, my first 12 months because the Home Minority Chief, I stood as much as immense strain from the Speaker of the Home and refused to droop our Home Guidelines, thereby ending the ignoble custom of late-night periods and passage of shock payments the general public by no means noticed. I urge my colleagues to by no means return to this previous means of conducting enterprise. 

·      All through 2021 and 2022, whereas most elected officers cheered on the proposed Brown-Lifespan-Care New England hospital merger, we labored to show this proposal for what it was: a veritable monopoly that might hurt healthcare supply. The ensuing public outcry prevented the Basic Meeting from overruling the Lawyer Basic’s denial of the merger. 

·      We broke new floor for good authorities with authorized motion to finish the illegal operations of the Joint Committee on Legislative Companies (JCLS). The JCLS is a committee of Basic Meeting Management charged to spend the Basic Meeting’s $50 Million price range. The JCLS has not met in over ten-years, but the cash continues to be spent. 

Consequently, our Superior Court docket has now dominated that Basic Meeting Management will not be entitled to legislative immunity, and authorized motion could also be introduced towards them to dam the illegal operations of this committee. I proceed to induce my JCLS colleagues to lastly uphold the rule of regulation, not the rule of energy. It’s by no means too late to do the correct factor, and I consider they may finally rise to the event. 

·      Over the previous two years I labored with my colleagues and lots of stakeholders to review and suggest laws to protect our constitutional seashore entry rights. This laws has now handed the Home and awaits Senate motion. The continued efforts of all involved is critical to realize remaining passage and defend future generations on this Ocean State. 

Now having served within the Basic Meeting for eight years, practically 20% of my life, I’ve struggled about whether or not to hunt one other time period in workplace. The time is now to step apart and for brand new public servants step up and serve our communities within the Home. 

Whereas I can’t run for reelection, I intend to stay deeply engaged in our lovely nook of the world. The artwork of the politics, as is the artwork of life, is all about human connection and the buddies we make alongside the way in which. I cherish our friendships and sit up for nurturing them within the years forward. 

Respectfully yours,

Blake Filippi

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