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Episode Fifteen: Candidate Chat with Jon Brien
Sarah and Elizabeth sit down with Rhode Island StateRepresentative Jon Brien, the only independent in the RI General Assembly, representing District 49 (Woonsocket & North Smithfield). Jon shares his remarkable political journey — from serving as a Democrat, to losing his seat by 50 votes, to returning a decade later and winning by the exact same marginas an independent. They dig into his landmark 340B prescription drug legislation that took on Big Pharma, Rhode Island's energy policy and why your bills keep rising, the broken two-party system, and what a three-party future could look like…
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