Rhode Island Democratic gubernatorial nominee Gina Raimondo and Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., violated state campaign finance law by appearing in a pricey TV spot together, the state’s Republican Party alleged this week.

Reed, whose whose re-election is a virtual certainty, appears just briefly at the end of the 32-second ad to say he he approves of it. The whole rest of the ad is about Raimondo and her plan to create jobs in the Ocean State, but the state Democratic Party is using Reed’s cameo to skirt the state’s campaign finance laws.