meet Cameron

Cameron Moquin is running for Rhode Island State Senate because he has been watching crisis after crisis unfold, and he cannot look away.

Early Life

Cameron has spent the better part of his life in Providence and studied Political Science at Rhode Island College, where he was inducted into Pi Sigma Alpha, the national honor society for political science majors.

A Career in Public Service

Joining the fire department changed everything. Not just because the work mattered, though it did, but because of who Cameron met doing it. Shift after shift, call after call, he encountered Providence residents facing impossible choices. People skipping medications because they could not afford the refill. Families delaying care until a manageable condition became a crisis. Working people, people earning what should be enough, being slowly crushed by the cost of staying alive and keeping a roof over their heads.

Cameron has endured the many days and hard nights on rescue as a RI EMT-Cardiac, climbing the ranks to acting Captain today on Rescue 1. He has restarted hearts on kitchen floors, carried folks down narrow winding staircases, and revived countless overdoses. What that work gave him, beyond the skills and the rank, was clarity. Patient after patient, the healthcare system was failing people who deserved better. The stories kept stacking up until it crystallized into something Cameron could not ignore: if he wanted to solve this problem, he needed to serve at a higher level.

Why He's Running

Cameron ran a platform campaign for Congress in 2022 because progressive issues had no voice in that race. It was a soapbox. This time he is running to win.

The triggering event was Senator Bell's vote to confirm a judge who had opposed marriage equality and reproductive rights. Cameron sat down with Bell and asked him about it directly. Bell defended it by talking in circles with no substantive reasoning. After looking at his full eight-year record, what he found confirmed what he already suspected. Bell has made a career of burning bridges. Cameron has spent his career building them.

They are both progressives. The difference is that Cameron knows you cannot pass legislation alone. On an emergency scene you work with whoever is there, police, medical, neighbors, because the only way to help is to work together. That is not a compromise of values. That is how you actually deliver on them. Building consensus and coalition is not a fallback position for Cameron. It is a core skill and a point of pride.

The Plan

Cameron has drafted universal healthcare legislation for Rhode Island. A bill, with a legal structure designed to survive challenge, and with numbers that show exactly how it works. He believes this plan will become the model from which a national framework grows, and he will not stop until healthcare is solved.

He is ready to get to work.