The battle of East Providence features the race between Brian Coogan and Valarie Lawson in East Providence’s Rhode Island State Senate District 14, with so much on the line. Lawson, the Senate President at the Rhode Island State house, is considered the Queen of corruption. One political insider called Val Lawson “one of the most corrupt, sleazy, pay for play political criminals the state has ever seen.” Lawson lives by the code “never speak when you can nod, never nod when you can wink, everything is a deal, no deal too small.” Lawson ran cover for McKee with the bridge fiasco, promising she would be silent in exchange for “$ campaign donations.” Lawson pushed through a pause on charter schools in exchange for “$ campaign donations. “Lawson protected a teacher that mocked the death of Charlie Kirk and she has also pushed for more trans-boys playing high school girls sports. Rumors continue to swirl on an Federal investigation into Lawson and her teachers union with allegations of massive fraud.
