Long before he was Governor Chafee’s operations chief as director of administration, Richard Licht was Rhode Island’s Democratic lieutenant governor and a credible U.S. Senate challenger to Chafee’s father John in 1988. (Frank Licht, Richard’s uncle, had booted John Chafee from the governor’s office 20 years before.)

Chafee beat Licht by nine points that November, but this CNN clip – with footage of a youthful Mr. Licht – shows the lieutenant governor was taken seriously and the race was seen as “a dog fight”:

(Can anybody figure out what thoroughfare that is at the start of the CNN clip?)