Projo Politics Blog

Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts has joined most other top Democrats in endorsing the presidential candidacy of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

“Hillary Clinton’s 35-year record fighting for children and families makes her uniquely qualified to lead this country from her first day in the White House,” Roberts said. “She has the strength and experience and vision to provide quality, affordable health insurance to every American.”

Most of the state’s other leading elected Democrats have endorsed the Clinton campaign, including Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Congressman James R. Langevin, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch, General Treasurer Frank Caprio, Providence Mayor David Cicilline and House Speaker William Murphy, D-West Warwick.

Sen. Jack Reed has yet to endorse any presidential candidate and Rep. Patrick Kennedy is supporting his fellow Providence College alum, Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd, who is close to Kennedy’s father, Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Roberts said she did not attend the Nov. 9 Clinton fundraiser in East Greenwich because she and her husband, Thomas Roberts, were in Rome celebrating the couple’s 25th wedding anniversary. “I would have been there if it hadn’t been for our anniversary.”

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