Rhode Island GOP
Anchor Rising has been provided with a draft of the platform document nearing approval by the Rhode Island Republican Party. To be formally adopted, the platform still needs to pass votes of the party’s Executive Committee and then the State Central Committee, and it is possible that some amending could occur at those stages. And…
Woonsocket City Council President Leo Fontaine, a Republican, was elected over Todd Brien to replace Susan Menard as Mayor yesterday. But, as explained by the ProJo’s John Hill, there is something unique about the structure of Woonsocket politics that probably helped Fontaine: Municipal elections are nonpartisan in Woonsocket; candidates do not run as members of…
Alright, there wasn’t really a fire, but since we’re talking radio, I like to imagine that there was one. Dan Yorke and I had that sort of conversation, yesterday, on 630AM/99.7FM WPRO. Those who missed it or who would like to revisit something (for kind or scurrilous reasons) can stream the whole segment (about an…
Ah, Frank: Breaking new ground in Rhode Island’s top political ranks, General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio has made public his daily calendars for the last 18 months, a move that not only shows how and with whom he has spent his time in office, but also the number of days he spent traveling outside Rhode…
Marc points to the crux of the “Providence Plantations” matter when he writes: Until now, I think the reaction by most people when hearing about “Plantations” was the rhetorical “Huh.” The irony is that Metts et al have set in motion a self-fulfilling prophecy thanks to this bit of “consciousness raising” about a heretofore unrealized…
Jim Geraghty notes: …last night a Republican and a Republican-endorsed independent won two of six seats on the Alexandria, Va., City Council, the first ones elected to the city’s governing board since 2000. The city-council race was actually the fourth recent contest in which Northern Virginia Republicans overperformed, in a region that went heavily for…
Deliberately skirting the content of the news story, I’d like to note that I think RI-GOP Chairman Gio Cicione hit precisely the correct note regarding the drunk driving Democrat legislator: “I have trouble getting myself outraged about this,” state Republican Party chairman Giovanni Cicione said. “The guy should be a little more open about the…
[Below are excerpts from Gio’s remarks at the RIGOP Convention March 19. Full text available in Microsoft Word.] Thank you all for the opportunity to serve you again as Rhode Island Republican Party chair. * * * It takes a Carter to get a Reagan. 1976 was four short years leading up to the greatest…
Lest I be misunderstood, perhaps a note’s in order stating that I support the Ocean State 38 initiative that Travis Rowley describes. As a political organization, the RIGOP must reinvent itself at the local level and build from there — not just for fundraising, but in order to get to know voters and to identify…
In attempting to navigate the difficult waters that separate my employer and the clients on whose property we labor, I’ve at times been called “The Diplomat.” I very often disagree with his decisions and, even more often, his methods, but there’s a job to be done, and it requires that responsibility be properly allocated and…