PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The new Senate President Dominick Ruggerio is shaking up the chamber’s leadership.
Democratic Sen. Daniel Da Ponte, of East Providence, said on Facebook on Tuesday that he was pulled from his eight-year position leading the finance committee because he made calls to fellow senators in considering a run to be Democratic majority leader.
Ruggerio replaced him with another East Providence Democrat, William Conley.
Ruggerio, the former Democratic majority leader, became Senate president on Thursday. Democrats held a caucus and chose Ruggerio’s preferred successor, Warwick Sen. Michael McCaffrey, to be the new majority leader.
Da Ponte says if this is a window into how Ruggerio’s new team will operate, it doesn’t bode well for the Senate or Rhode Island.
Ruggerio say it’s important to appoint chairmen who are supportive of leadership.
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