Neil Steinberg

I, I was a, uh, ended up as a vice president of Bank Newport, and, you know, as a business banker, learned about loans and lines and credit and cash flow.

And, and then I was, uh, also worked at the Rhode Island Foundation as a major fundraiser under Neil Steinberg, so very complex sometimes transactions, and raised a lot more money to do more good.

And, you know, I ran for lieutenant governor and one day of and lost on the ballots, um, 43.1%.

So, um, you know, that was a good number and a great charge.

Do you agree with me, though, that systemic change and replicating what the Commonwealth does would be a great thing for this state?

Yes, and as I'm sure you had heard back in the day when the takeover started and when Neil Steinberg was back at the foundation, some of the work that was done around that, and there was a lot of study that was done about Massachusetts, The single biggest thing that Massachusetts has done is stay the course.

They're now pushing 20 years into a reform plan.

And so I don't think that we should continually be throwing out our reform agenda and then trying something new and never actually finishing any changes.

Um, a friend of mine, Mark Blutman, who's a terrific writer, showrunner, uh, was, uh, I think running the Olsen twins had a show on TV.

And he spoke to, uh, the guy that, in the Olsen twins' company that was on the TV show, and they said to him, "Do you know someone who could write, like, good teen comedy? We wanna up the level of their, their movies." And, um, he said, "I'll call this guy Michael and, and..." So Neil, N- Neil Steinberg calls me up, and, uh, he works for, uh, Dualstar, their company.

And right away I gotta do my research 'cause I, obviously I know of the Olsen twins, but I've ever seen them or anything? [laughs] No, nothing.

I've never seen anything they've done or anything like that, but I knew that they were, you know, a very successful, um, you know, actors and the whole thing they had going on.