Patrick Laverty
I guess the real question is whether the voters will fall for it. And based on the recent WPRI results, people are falling for it. The David Cicilline campaign is trying to scare the voters away from voting for Brendan Doherty by telling everyone who he supports and who he’ll align himself with. Well, they’re…
I think back to the old Southwest Airlines commercial (see it) advertising the all the great things about Philadelphia, including the cabbie proclaiming “Well there’s a lot, a lot of culture here” and then all the other people in the commercial just proclaiming the greatness of the cheesesteak. Sometimes, I feel like people here in…
I thought GoLocalProv.com was on to something with a little feature they came up with for this week where they’d show where each federal candidate was spending their campaign money, in-state or out of state. However, I don’t know how much good it does for your story when you show the numbers and then basically…
Recently, we’ve seen a report from RIPEC about the troubled EDC and how to improve it. Everyone wants to improve the business community, or at least they say they do, but as one of the points in the report, Rhode Island lacks a clear vision or path toward making any improvements. Reports like that can…
If we can chop this whole RI Congressional District 1 race (Doherty vs. Cicilline) down to a single sentence, does it get any more concise than this? “He’s dishonest” vs. “He’s a Republican” And with that, some polls (paid for by the Democrats) claim that Cicilline is leading. That tells me that voters in this…
For the last few days, WPRO host Dan Yorke has seemed exasperated any time the Congressional District 1 race comes up. He feels the Doherty campaign has had a flawed strategy by letting David Cicilline go around the state and tell seniors that Doherty will take away their Medicare. Cicilline says that Doherty sides with…
Isn’t it so much fun when you get deep into campaign season and the mud is flying everywhere. Usually, the closer you get to election day, the muddier it gets. It seems we’re seeing all the usual stuff flying around. Now we’re hearing about a poll where David Cicilline has magically made a 26 point…
Hooray! A Rhode Islander made it to the top ten! (h/t Ian Donnis)
I seem to remember back around the time of President Obama’s inauguration, we were being told that President Bush had done great harm to the reputation of our country and that Obama would fix it. Obama would repair all the damage done with regard to US foreign relations. Am I creating a straw man? Here’s…
We saw bumper stickers and signs that proclaimed “Never Forget”, but of course as time goes on, people do. Those that were too young to remember any part of it will just look back at it like the moon landing for me. It’s just something they hear the older people talk about and what they…