Gay Congressman announces he is resigning

Fresh from winning his seventh term in Congress representing Rhode Island’s First Congressional District, Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) announced that he is leaving his job well before his term is over this coming June in order to lead a nonprofit organization.

Cicilline, who was first elected to Congress in 2010, announced that he will be the next president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation, which manages charitable funds set up by donors to give to other local organizations. According to WPRI, the position paid over $1 million a year in 2019.

“Serving the people of Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District has been the honor of my lifetime,” Cicilline said in a statement. “As president and CEO of one of the largest and oldest community foundations in the nation, I look forward to expanding on the work I have led for nearly thirty years in helping to improve the lives of all Rhode Islanders.”

He said that he would be gone by…

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