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December 15, 2010

Invitees to Gov-Elect Chafee's Budget Summit

Monique Chartier

List courtesy WPRI's Ted Nesi. The summit takes place this Friday at RI College; Nesi provides schedule and format details here.

John Simmons, Executive Director, Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council

Robert Flanders Jr., Chairman of the Board of Regents

Ray M. Di Pasquale, Commissioner of Higher Education

Elizabeth Roberts, Lieutenant Governor (tentative)

Anne Nolan, President of Crossroads

George Nee, Executive Director, AFL-CIO

Helena Buonanno Foulkes, EVP and CMO at CVS Caremark

Kimberly McDonough, President, Advanced Pharmacy Concepts

Scott Avedisian, Mayor of Warwick

Diane Mederos, Bristol Town Administrator, President of RI League of Cities and Towns

Scott Wolf, Grow Smart RI

Pablo Rodriguez, Assoc. Chair of Community Relationships


Comments

A baby killer, Pig boss and Liz Roberts at a "Budget Summit"?? lol
Gov. Gump's version of Hope and Change here in RI.

Posted by: Tim at December 15, 2010 8:10 AM

Flanders is the only person on the panel who may actually say what needs to be said; the rest will offer-up what they do best: political rhetoric.

Posted by: Lee at December 15, 2010 9:43 AM

Tim- Do not let the door hit you on the way out. It probably will not. Such is the way of slippery weasels.

Posted by: David S at December 15, 2010 7:22 PM

Hi!
Observations:
1. Who are the economists in this group?
2. While were not more municipal officials included? One from the small, intermediate, and large cities. Bristol can be listed as a large town by rI standards.
3. The Governor-Elect should at one point invite people from groups like the tea party,OSPRI, and Operation Clean Government. These groups seem to be missing. Politics does not necessarily mean agreement or shared goals.
However these groups have support, and an independent Governor especially needs to show interest interest in both major parties Democrat and Republican. Since the Dems are by far the dominant party and the Governor-Elect has given high profile positions to two former Dem. Lt. Governors, it will be interesting to what effect non Democrats will have influence.
Regards,
Scott

Posted by: Scott Bill Hirst at December 20, 2010 11:20 AM

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Posted by: allyn Grant at February 6, 2011 8:55 PM