Bob Healey did not win the Rhode Island gubernatorial race. No one expected him to, seeing as he didn’t plan to raise any money during his campaign.
He did, however, win 22 percent of the vote — 10 percent more than the last Brown University poll had projected — while Democratic candidate Gina Raimondo beat Republican Allan Fung 40-36.
The substantially bearded Healey told a local news station Wednesday morning: “It’s amazing what $35 can do. As I’ve been saying, if we only spent $75, $80, we might’ve won the race.”
Four years ago, Ken Block founded The Moderate Party of Rhode Island, with a platform calling for tax cuts and regulatory relief, to make Rhode Island more business friendly. Mr. Block ran for Governor in 2010, receiving 6.5% of the vote on the Moderate Party ticket.
This year, Ken Block ran in the Republican primary for Governor, and lost. The Moderate Party nominated Bob Healey for Governor, and survived the defection of Ken Block to the Republicans. The Washington Post gives details on the most moderate spending candidate of the 2014 election @ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/05/this-rhode-island-governor-candidate-won-22-percent-of-the-vote-he-only-spent-35/