Rhode Island's Future is a

Rhode Island Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020, but it ...

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dubbed the "state's most popular political blog" by the Phoenix Newspaper. The blog was started in March 2005 by political activist

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, a long-time community and union organizer with

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and

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. Contributing to this was the first

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elected official in Rhode Island's history (who later became a

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), State Representative David Segal. Rhode Island's Future played a key role in the 2006 Senate race between

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and

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by exposing a scandal involving a Chafee staffer sending controversial emails from a government computer just one week before the election. Jerzyk, the blog's editor, also played a central role in a prominent controversy at

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involving the chairman of the university's board of trustees use of the "

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" and the subsequent removal of his name from the law school.For a Litigator on a Streak, There's a Science to Winning - WSJ.com
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External links

*http://www.rifuture.org

References

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