Rhode Island House
And speaking of Peter Petrarca (overall score 2), the House delegation from Smithfield seems to have cornered the market on flip-flopping. As noted in the item on relief from unfunded mandates, Rep. Petrarca is the legislator who sponsored a bill to repeal municipal-side unfunded mandates in February — and then voted against nearly identical language…
And speaking of Johnston, the contrast in the Anchor Rising legislative rankings between Johnston and its legislative neighbors is striking. Stephen Ucci and Deborah Fellela both received scores of -1, as did John Carnevale who’s district includes both Providence and Johnson. The highest-rated legislator from Johnston was Peter Petrarca (who also represents Smithfield and Lincoln)…
Representative Donna Walsh (D – Charlestown/New Shoreham/South Kingstown/Westerly) was the sole RI Rep receiving the low score in Anchor Rising legislative rankings (-2). However, it should also be noted that Representative Stephen Ucci (D – Cranston/Johnston) missed the vote on Rep. Karen MacBeth’s amendment to make the car tax reimbursement rate uniform across cities and…
Justin’s question of…Who’s Winfield?…referring to Representative Thomas Winfield (D – Glocester/Smithfield) and his rumored run for Speaker of the House against Gordon Fox, provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the Anchor Rising legislative scorecard in action. Begin with this simple observation: Rep. Winfield scored a 1 out of 10, while current speaker of the House…
Here are Anchor Rising’s legislative rankings of the members of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, based on the five sets of legislative votes that have been analyzed over the past two weeks. The idea is to try to capture each legislator’s propensities towards taxes, cost-of-government and cost-of-mandates, attitudes that are to difficult assess based…
Here’s the scoring system for Anchor Rising’s legislative rankings that will appear in the following post. The heading-links will take you to the posts that explain the legislation involved and the complete vote tallies in detail. Pension Reform:+2 for voting for the pension reform article or for the amendment affecting new hires. Reducing State Car-Tax…
The final vote taken by the RI House of Representatives considered in this series is the January vote to override the Governor’s veto of a bill which created a new state board to design health plan options for Rhode Island teachers (see pg. 396). The law which resulted from this bill is a simultaneous affront…
There have been a series of related educational reform developments in Rhode Island over the past several years, including the Race to the Top application, the events in Central Falls, the passage of the “funding formula”, the expansion of charter schools and the creation of a new public governance structure for public education, the mayoral…
After the Rhode Island House of Representatives passed this year’s set of individual budget articles, Representative John Loughlin of Tiverton/Little Compton/Portsmouth introduced an amendment to add an additional article to relieve cities and towns from certain unfunded education mandates (pg. 162)…Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, whether contained in the appropriations for the support of…
Rep. Jon Brien of Woonsocket has brought to my attention the section of the House Journal from June 8 (pg. 2), where his intention to vote against the amendment lowering the statewide car-tax exemption from $3,000 to $500 was entered into the official record. With that change, Rep. Brien should be counted in the group…
