In the wake of a new poll showing his Democratic primary opponent Clay Pell (D) gaining ground in the race for Rhode Island governor, Angel Taveras (D) made public an email in which Pell claimed an unpaid summer internship between his sophomore and junior years at college as “critical experience” at the State Department, the Providence Journal reports.
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