POV TAKING ON THE KENNEDYS


THE ADS

VIGILANTE AD B

"I'm Angelina Rottenni. I live on the second floor and Patrick Kennedy lived on my first floor. He left before the lease was over. He owed me thirty-four hundred dollars. Didn't care if I was hurt or not. I'm eighty-nine years old. I'm not a wealthy widow and Patrick Kennedy said, 'I don't have the money.' I said 'Didn't have the money? He's a millionaire. He didn't care about me.'"





KENNEDY AD B

"As the candidate of the insurance lobby, Kevin Vigilante says he wants legal reform to limit what injured people can collect in the courts. But Vigilante wasn't saying that four years ago when he sued an elderly Providence woman after a traffic accident. Records show that Vigilante demanded not just cash and a new car, but tuition for graduate school at Harvard, because he said he was, 'severely, permanently, and grievously injured.' Maybe he found a miracle cure.'



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