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(RI) GOP hopeful says he was offered "anything'' to leave race
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Sep 10, 2010 07:26pm |
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| Author | Katherine Gregg |
| News Date | Thursday, September 9, 2010 11:25:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Republican John Robitaille says an intermediary for state treasurer and Democratic candidate for governor Frank T. Caprio offered him "anything, anything you want to get out of this race.''
Robitaille said the unnamed "intermediary'' was one of several "former movers-and-shakers on the political landscape'' and a Republican currently in office who approached him, on Caprio's behalf, in the last five to six weeks.
He said the message was essentially the same each time: that Caprio does not believe he can pull in the conservative votes he needs to beat former U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee, running as a left-of-center Independent, with Robitaille in the race and "the worst thing in the world would be to have Linc Chafee become governor.''
"That was the message I got from almost everyone,'' Robitaille said.
In an interview on Thursday, Robitaille said Caprio personally asked to meet with him on a "rainy Sunday'' about three weeks ago and they met at a coffee shop in a strip mall near the movie theaters in Seekonk.
He said Caprio was not as direct as his intermediaries, but let him know that he would welcome having him stand by his side as his former primary opponent, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch, did after he dropped out of the race, and would "look forward to working with you in the future.''
Robitaille said he told Caprio the same thing he told his "intermediaries'' before and after that coffee shop meeting: that he was "not interested in working a deal'' and "nothing on God's green earth'' would convince him to leave the race.
Robitaille told his story on Thursday, on the day The Journal ran a column confirming Caprio's long-rumored courtship of national Republican support for his campaign for governor." |
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