 He won by a larger margin than any candidate for a contested statewide office on the Rhode Island ballot in 2006.Caprio made Rhode Island history as the first candidate in the state to officially announce his candidacy via a multimedia broadcast that included television, Web, on-demand cable television, and radio.This was done, he explained, because he wants his "vision for the treasurer's office" to be accessible to "as many Rhode Islanders as possible in as comfortable a format as possible."