Helena Foulkes on why she’s making a second bid to become Rhode Island’s governor

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Last week, Helena Foulkes announced she was running for governor of Rhode Island. Interview highlights:On why she’s running for governorI am running for governor of Rhode Island because I’ve been looking at all the pain that Rhode Islanders are feeling, honestly, and especially in the last three years. So it used to be in Rhode Island, when you got a root canal, you’d leave the doctor’s office and you’d have a prescription and it was 30 pills and we had to fill 30 pills. And unfortunately, in Rhode Island, we do not have a governor who’s doing that. I think we’re going to have to look at the revenue side, but we also need to look at the cost side.