Rhode Island Politics
This has to stick in the craw of anybody who’s struggling to make monthly housing payments and considers continued employment to be a month-to-month thing (emphasis added): Carcieri immediately put legislative leaders on notice of the likely need to borrow from the state-run disability-insurance fund earlier in the state’s budget year than anyone could recall.…
On Matt Allen on 630AM/99.7FM WPRO last night, Monique brought up the West Warwick situation and summarized other happenings hereabout. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
In a comment to my post on Bob Kerr’s column, Aldo writes: Not so fast….. Alves’ Election Appeal Update – Your taxes at work! Quick update on the fiasco in the RI Supreme Court …. All parties involved in Alves’ appeal were supposed to have submitted their briefs / supporting documentation by 4:30 on Friday…
Give the man his due, Bob Kerr had a good column on Sunday, written in the form of a sympathy letter to soon-to-be-ex-Senator Steve Alves: I recall the letter now, Steve, because it seems you too are dealing with that same kind of heartbreaking end, that same abrupt dismissal from what seemed a rock solid…
The other evening, an older gentleman in Tiverton told me of his experience working in town government with Tiverton Town Council President Louise Durfee… during the Nixon administration. Well, the heiress apparently sees something of concern in Tiverton Citizens for Change, because she took out a big advertisement in the Sakonnet Times this week, the…
I see Matt and Ian have both posted about how the most recent Brown poll shows an “approval” rating of only 39% for Governor Carcieri. The actual question/answers are as follows: How would you rate the job Don Carcieri is doing as governor? Excellent 13.0%; Good 26.3%; Only fair 24.9%; Poor 32.8%; Don’t know/No answer…
Perhaps the key is to acknowledge and work with Rhode Islanders’ pathological need to vote Democrat: [Michael] Pinga [electoral slayer of West Warwick Senator Stephen Alves] switched his voter affiliation to Democrat from Republican this spring. Some of his ideologies — his support of Governor Carcieri and opposition to tax hikes, abortion and gay marriage…
It may be that it doesn’t come across as often as it should, but I’m as disappointed as anybody that Governor Carcieri seems often not to understand the image that he must present to counter the break-and-blame strategy that the Democrats have woven into the governance of Rhode Island. If actions of the General Assembly…
UPDATE: Monique & WJAR-TV say Alves loses. He’ll seek a recount…One of the biggest upsets was brewing in state Senate District 9, where eight-term incumbent Alves was behind by 17 votes to Michael Pinga with 100 percent of the vote counted, according to Associated Press numbers. Alves, who represents West Warwick, told The Providence Journal…
We’ve reached a state of near parody: While Political Scene was trolling the hallway outside Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams’ office, in the Licht Judicial Complex, last week, something sparkly caught our eye. A contractor perched atop elevated scaffolding was installing 23-carat gold leaf on the detailed ceiling trim. The work appeared part…