Rhode Island GOP
Following the Governor’s lead, the RI GOPs nominating committee has also endorsed Giovanni Cicione for GOP Chairman. More: Cicione has been active in statewide Republican politics for more than a decade, first in city and town GOP committees in Providence, Cranston and Barrington, and in 2002 as a candidate for Congress from Rhode Island’s First…
Via N4N comes news that Govenor Carcieri has issued a press release endorsing Gio Cicione as RI GOP Chair: “Giovanni Cicione has played an active role in the Rhode Island Republican Party, and I am confident that he has the experience and the energy to continue building the party in the state,” Governor Carcieri said.…
OK, here you go. I know that the conversation has started around here already, so this Forum is an attempt to centralize the discussion about the upcoming RI GOP leadership races. State your case, keep it clean and try to stay away from innuendo. Have at it.
David Cote, Chairman of the South Kingstown Republican Town Committee, has formally declared his candidacy for State GOP Chair… If the RIGOP is to succeed with its mission in 2008, it must be run like a business. As a Director of one of the largest technology corporations in the world with responsibility for $500 million…
From a dishearteningly informative article from Mark Arsenault of the Projo…The Rhode Island Republican State Central Committee spent nearly five times as much in the 2006 election on consulting fees to people connected to the party than it gave to its own General Assembly candidates, who then failed to pick up any seats. After providing…
In this week’s Providence Phoenix, Ian Donnis has 6 items from Giovanni Cicione’s 10 point plan for turning around the state Republican Party, if he is selected as chairman…The state party needs a leadership team — not just a leader. There is too much for any one person to do alone and without the constant…
Ian Donnis posted on his Not for Nothing blog yesterday that Governor Carcieri has endorsed Giovanni Cicione to be the next RI GOP Chair. According to Donnis: Cicione, a 36-year-old Barrington lawyer and GOP activist, told me this morning that he met with the governor about two weeks ago “and he’s expressed his support for…
We’ve talked A LOT about the direction of the RI GOP around here (scroll down to the bottom and start reading). Now State Rep. John Loughlin is wading in with his two cents. First, he thinks that everyone is spending too much time worrying about party structure and political tactics and “ignoring the fundamental question:…
Commenter “Greg”, in his inimitably direct (and sometimes frightening) over-the-top style, posed this question about the Providence Phoenix last week…I don’t understand why this site gives that oversized porn and pot advertisement this much ink.An answer can be found in this week’s Phoenix, where Ian Donnis goes a little further than the rest of the…
In this week’s Providence Phoenix, Ian Donnis provides a short political profile of Giovanni Cicione, who may be the first “official” candidate for state Republican chair… Giovanni Cicione, a lawyer and Republican activist who paid his dues by running against US Representative Patrick J. Kennedy in 1996, has emerged as a leading contender to succeed…
