Smith Hill

She made the big schlep to come here, although she's used to traveling to the Rodon House of Representatives on the State House.

on Smith Hill.

Megan is a Democrat from a conservative-leaning district.

In 2022, she defeated an incumbent who took part in the January 6th rally in Washington.

You never get anybody to stand up and say, hey, is this a good idea? Do we have the expertise to run this? Is there a better vendor? Should we be looking at something else? Because everybody marches in lockstep and we keep moving in the same direction.

And that's, I think, part of my value proposition is bringing that alternative voice into the chambers of state government right on Smith Hill.

Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor John Loughlin, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you,

Yeah, and what's, what is, um, remar- what is stunning to me, just flat out stunning to me, is some of the places where you saw that turnout increase.

Uh, you know, people aren't gonna, uh, unless you're really into Providence politics, you're not gonna know Ward 12 necessarily, but essentially think most of Smith Hill, right? That's, that's where the State House is.

Think Patrick's Pub, uh, that area.

That's Ward 12, and then the areas kind of all behind that, uh, you know, going up like Amherst, uh, Street and things like that.

We lived in the University Heights on the east side, ironically, in Chad Brown.

and, you know, was able to have friends on all sides of the board, all sides of the fence, from each side of Providence, whether they were from the south side, west end, east side, or Chad Brown, you know what I'm saying, and my family being from Chad Brown, got family in Smith Hill, so, like, I was able to, like, just, I was able to just take in, like, soak in every bit of the culture growing up, going to school, Martin Luther King, going to Mary Fogarty, and I grew up with a lot of brothers, you know what I'm saying, a lot of, a lot of A lot of brothers that taught me a lot, you know what I'm saying? Whether they know or not, you know what I'm saying? A lot of brothers that are not here no more, you know what I'm saying? Due to, you know, being just a product of the environment and shit.

And, you know, there was so many times, you know, and I think about me and my brother Tynell, who we have the same mother, same father.

we could have been easily products of the environment.