PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Rep. Doreen Costa, R-North Kingstown, is leaving her sales job at WPRO-radio for a new full-time job as the state Republican Party's finance director.
Costa said she gave her notice on Thursday, and expects to start her new job -- pay yet to be determined -- the last week in June.
As she envisions the job, she will be "out in the community'' fundraising, "rebranding the party'' and telling people: "I am the Republican party and we are not taking your Medicare away.''
By driving up in her 2007 Hyundai Tiburon with 160,000 miles, she said, she hopes that will also convey that not all Republicans are rich, and "If they want to say Republicans are rich, I will bring my last bank statement ... [to show] I live paycheck to paycheck. This is what we are.''