East Providence
The last paragraph of Alisha A. Pina‘s story in today’s Projo on Democrat Mary Messier’s victory in Tuesday’s District 62 special election (former Rep. Elizabeth Dennigan’s old seat, mostly Pawtucket with a little bit of East Providence) provides a perfect example of how the state Democratic Party’s intellectual bankruptcy on fiscal issues continues to propel…
RI Tea Party founder Colleen Conley capped off the East Providence GOP’s Thursday night fundraiser with a message that GOP politicians should certainly heed:
Interest in gubernatorial candidate Rory Smith is sufficient that his speech at the East Providence fundraiser on Thursday night, merits its own post:
Next up, from the East Providence fundraiser on Thursday night, is East Providence School Committee Chairman Anthony Carcieri: Followed, in the extended entry, by General Assembly Candidate Tom Clupny, Attorney General Candidate Erik Wallin, and East Providence School Committee Vice Chairman Steve Santos.
The next batch of video from the East Providence fundraiser on Thursday night begins with Congressional Candidate John Loughlin: In the extended entry: Loughlin’s brief Q&A and East Providence Assistant Mayor Robert Cusack.
Herewith, the first YouTube clips from Thursday night’s GOP fundraiser in East Providence. In the extended entry: RIGOP Chairman Gio Cicione, Cranston Mayor Allan Fung, and Congressional Candidate Mark Zaccaria.
One doesn’t have to know the specifics to be taken aback by this dirt-bag move from State Senator Daniel DaPonte (D, East Providence) (emphasis added): Larisa has cost the city money, DaPonte said, by creating “monumental parks” named after the mayor’s mother. And, DaPonte continued, Councilman Robert Cusack has cost the city “hundreds of thousands…
Anchor Rising is well represented at tonight’s fundraiser in East Providence, as are the familiar faces of the RI right-wing, and Republicans, too. About 50 people here. Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian had to be elsewhere and spoke first: State GOP Chairman Gio Cicione went next: Gio noted that he was glad to finally be able…
Tomorrow 6:30 – 9:00 pm at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 50 Crescent View Avenue. Good food and lots of interesting speakers. Details here. East Providence has been one of the major battlegrounds Ground Zero’s for reform in Rhode Island. It’s always fun (and enlightening) to drop in on events there.
Dan Yorke has been talking about the East Providence school administration’s push for a pay-for-performance system for teachers, and one teacher from the district called in from her house in Barrington to explain that that sort of pay schedule doesn’t work in her profession. Teaching is cooperative, you see, meaning that unlike other professions (apparently)…
