A Providence city councilor has endorsed recent vandalism of a city-owned statue of Christopher Columbus that covered the statue from head to toe with red paint.
Katherine Kerwin, a Democrat and first-term city councilor, tweeted in support of the vandalism and then doubled down when interviewed by a Providence radio show host Wednesday, October 16.
Democratic businessman Steve Pemberton is stopping his race for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, but not before taking a shot at his party's preference for what he called "legacy and birthright … incumbency and connections."
Pemberton was one of two outsiders who thought they had a shot to upset U.S. Senator Ed Markey in the September 2020 Democratic primary before U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III jumped into the race last month. The Kennedy-Markey fight is taking the lion's share of attention and political donations, leaving Pemberton and Brookline labor lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan scrambling for attention.
