Rhode Island Politics
Hopefully I’m not inciting violence by only quoting in part from the Occupy Providence mission statement, but I’m just hoping that the recent actions by the Occupy movement in other cities isn’t a sign of things to come here in Providence. The Providence folks, in their mission statement, wrote Occupy Providence is a completely non-violent…
It’s interesting to see people come out and align themselves with the Occupy movement. Many of these are the same people who call the Tea Party wackos or zealots. By the same token, many people who fancy themselves Tea Partiers, look down their nose at the people attending the Occupy events. But if these two…
“Raimondo: Politics threaten reform“: State Treasurer Gina M. Raimondo told the Rotary Club of Providence on Tuesday that the biggest potential hurdle to pension reform is “politics, politics, politics: special interests lobbying politicians and telling them, if they pass this reform, they’ll go after them in the next election.”…Look, this is politics. Special interests. You…
No, the headline isn’t a mistake, the Democrats really did close their primaries, as did the Republicans and every other state party. A “closed” primary means that to vote in a primary with a particular party, you must be a member of that party. You cannot be an unaffiliated voter and vote in a primary.…
Moderate Party founder Ken Block has been circulating an interesting letter: I have been waiting for someone to call out Bob Walsh on his comments in the September, 22, 2011 Providence Journal article “Business Coalition Backs R.I. Pension Reform.” Since no one else has yet taken Mr. Walsh to task, I will now do so.…
On Thursday morning, a member of the Board of Governors for Higher Education, Attorney Eva Mancuso, appeared on WPRO’s John Depetro Show to explain why the BOG was considering extending in-state college tuition to illegal alien students. Unfortunately, her answers fell short in a couple of key areas. Asked by her host why the BOG…
I’ve been formulating some thoughts about a question that’s been lingering around the aggregate Dan Gordon controversy: How could this happen? I still intend to put an answer down in writing — although my focus has understandably been on answering the same question with respect to paying my bills. In the meantime, Monique has offered…
Newsflash, Lincoln Chafee is not liked by Rhode Islanders! Ok, maybe that’s not too surprising, but in a recent GoLocalProv.com poll, Lincoln Chafee has an unfavorable rating of 47%. Well, he could like at the bright side in that he only received votes from 36.1% of the voters and now 45% give him a “favorable”…
It looks like the next domino is falling for Rep. Dan Gordon (R, Portsmouth, Tiverton, Little Compton): Military service records for a Rhode Island lawmaker who has said he sustained combat injuries in the 1991 Gulf War do not list a Purple Heart award or any Middle East deployments. State Rep. Daniel Gordon’s Marine Corps…
Mangeek’s comment to my post about the very Rhode Island background of the prospective head of hte 195 commission is just too appropriate not to reproduce for additional commentary: “when Kane’s father was a principal of a Providence elementary school” I had the pleasure of attending that school during Principal Kane’s tenure. He was an…