rivals like Instagram and WhatsApp has enabled
the tech giants to corner their market, giving
people little choice but to agree to terms of
service that exploit their personal data.
“A monopoly’s good for nobody, especially for
workers,” said J. Michael Downey, a president
of a Rhode Island public sector union who is
enthused about the congressman’s latest high-
profile cause. “When he takes someone on, I’ve
watched him do good things with it.”
Cicilline may be better known by some younger
Americans for his championing of LGBT
rights , and by older ones for his pithy attacks
on President Donald Trump during regular
cable appearances. He pushed early for an
impeachment inquiry, bucking Speaker Nancy
Pelosi despite being part of her leadership team.
Early on, Cicilline followed his father, a Mafia
lawyer , into criminal defense work. He got
experiences in taking on the “imbalance of
power,” he said, by suing police for misconduct.
He later served as a state representative before
taking aim at Cianci, who had already served
two long stretches as mayor. (The first ended
after Cianci attacked his estranged wife’s alleged
lover with a lit cigarette and a fireplace log.)
Cicilline pitched himself as an anti-corruption
reformer. At one early fundraiser, Cicilline said
Cianci’s supporters jotted down the license
plate numbers of attendees, then used the
information to identify and intimidate them.
“He didn’t take well to people challenging
him,” Cicilline told The Associated Press in an
interview. He said the sitting mayor also tried to
dig up dirt about his legal career.
Cianci later called Cicilline’s mayoral bid a
“political suicide mission” that succeeded only
because a racketeering conviction forced Cianci
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