跟进：好市多罗得岛首店选址引选战口水 对手批民主党提名人借机造势
好市多（Costco）选定 Smithfield 开设罗得岛州首家门店的消息10月22日宣布后，迅速卷入州长选战。10月23日，无党派候选人 Ken Block 与共和党人 Aaron Guckian 公开批评民主党州长提名人 Foulkes——她是好市多董事会成员——借该宣布为竞选造势。
Foulkes 阵营通过 WJAR 电视台回应称，选址消息此前已在外界流传，其确认来自与好市多的协商过程，并非竞选操作。
好市多公司公关部门未就此事回应媒体询问。罗得岛州长选举是该州今年中期选举的主要看点之一。
来源：GSM·美国
Follow-up: Costco's First Rhode Island Store Becomes Campaign Flashpoint
The October 22 announcement that Costco had chosen Smithfield for its first Rhode Island store quickly spilled into the governor's race. On October 23, independent candidate Ken Block and Republican Aaron Guckian criticized Democratic nominee Foulkes — a Costco board member — for using the announcement to boost her campaign.
Foulkes's campaign responded through WJAR television, saying word of the site selection had already been circulating and that her confirmation of it came through the negotiation process with Costco, not campaign staging.
Costco's corporate public relations office did not respond to media inquiries. The governor's race is among Rhode Island's headline contests in this year's midterm elections.
Source: GSM·America
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：图：Costco 批发门店外观。摄影：Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States，CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: a Costco Wholesale store, by Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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