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Pat Fontes wants a world without war, so she's challenging Sheldon Whitehouse

Pat Fontes wants a world without war, so she’s challenging Sheldon Whitehouse

By Bob Plain on July 19, 2018

Pat Fontes, a stalwart of the local antiwar movement, used to support Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. “I did not vote for Obama but I voted for Sheldon Whitehouse,” she told me in a recent interview.  Now the 81-year-old peace activist is making her first-ever run for elected office by challenging Rhode Island’s junior senator in this […]

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