Former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, who resigned and went to prison after video caught her stuffing $100 bills into her bra, is mounting a comeback:
"I don't have any secrets in my closet," she told B87 FM hostin her first public interview since entering the race."I tell people my clothes are hanging in the middle of Blue Hill Avenue for everybody to see."
Still, Curley found a way to turn the jail time to his advantage, said biographer Jack Beatty. Curley ran for re-election under the slogan,"He did it for a friend." "A lot of people in the Rhode Island electorate, particularly men of a certain age, didn't see this as public corruption," said long-time Rhode Island political reporter Scott MacKay."They thought he was, you know, in the macho realm, kind of defending his name and his honor and a lot of that foolishness."
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