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Independent from Rhode Island
Lincoln Chafee has been Rhode Island's governor since Jan. 4, 2011. He is the first Independent to be elected to that office. He previously served as mayor of Warwick from 1992 to 1999, when he was appointed to the U.S. Senate following the death of his father, Sen. John H. Chafee. He was elected to a full Senate term in 2000. He is married with three children.
Recent statements involving Lincoln Chafee
The state budget proposal has been submitted "on time and [it's] the earliest that a governor has done so in over two decades."
"The five economic indicators that the federal government tracks - for the first time since August 2006 - were positive this October."
"The commercial property tax [in Providence] is second highest in the country behind Detroit."
The InterLink at T.F. Green Airport is the closest air-rail link in the country.
"If Rhode Island does a hybrid [retirement] plan we’ll be the first state in the nation to do this.’’
Recent stories featuring Lincoln Chafee
Website ignores key facts in bid to tie Lincoln Chafee to organized crime in Ukraine:
Given Lincoln Chafee's record of being willing to buck the system and the Chafee family's reputation, Rhode Islanders were jarred to hear the independent gubernatorial candidate being accused of consorting with someone who might have ties to organized crime.
But that's what happened earlier this month when a local news website reported on Chafee's work at a foundation established by a Ukrainian billionaire.
We explored Chafee's role there, and got different opinions on the politics and intrigue swirling around the effort to set up a think tank in one of the world's fledgling democracies.
We've examined two claims made recently by gubernatorial candidates Frank Caprio and Lincoln Chafee.
Caprio attacked Chafee for his handling of a 1990s teachers' dispute in Warwick. We ruled Caprio's claim Half True.
Chafee said changing Rhode Island's official name would require amending the U.S. Constitution. We couldn't rule definitively on that, but decided to share our research anyway.
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