Rhode Island Politics
Following along with my liveblog of the Moderate Party’s kick-off event, on Sunday, at the Everyman Bistro in Providence, the next videos are the presentations and speeches of the candidates for Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor (Additional video in the extended entry.)
As described in my liveblog, the Moderate Party’s kick-off event, on Sunday, at the Everyman Bistro in Providence, began with Executive Director Christine Hunsinger and Chairman Robert Corrente. (Additional video in the extended entry.)
After the Moderate Party’s kick-off event, yesterday, Andrew and I had the opportunity to interview Gubernatorial Candidate Ken Block, Lt. Gov. Candidate Jean Ann Guliano, and Attorney General Candidate Chris Little. Here are the videos (click the extended entry for the latter two.) A couple of quick thoughts: Ken Block is more liberal than I’d…
Owing to the moderately light traffic, I’ve arrived moderately early for the column today featuring Corrente, you know what he’s saying. Passing note: An Anchor Rising reader just introduced himself and gave me a matchbook from the Reagan/Bush ’84 campaign. Really neat. There’s a metaphor in there somewhere about Anchor Rising setting Rhode Island on…
Anybody else wondering how many Rhode Island journalists are grateful to the Moderate Party for letting slip their list of candidates in advance of tomorrow’s kickoff party? Some of them may take time out of their Sunday relaxation plans to attend, but the pressure is surely off. I’ll probably go — if only to see…
Ed Achorn offers an excellent suggestion: Maybe Republicans should exploit the master lever to throw a scare into the legislature. They could point out that, under the utter domination of one party in the General Assembly, Rhode Island has lost tens of thousands of jobs, fueling an unemployment rate of about 13 percent, while that…
This may have to become a daily feature for the next few days… Ken Block will be the Moderate candidate for Governor (according to Katherine Gregg of the Projo). Is this because no one else was interested, or because no one wants to give the Moderate party any money and by becoming a candidate, Mr.…
I had to switch to music halfway through my commute home, on Friday, because Dan Yorke had Rep. Tim Williamson (D, Coventry, West Warwick) on his show, and my feet were beginning to stick to the pedals from the slime that was seeping from the speakers. A woman called in to challenge Williamson’s assertion that…
As a function of one of my jobs, I review state RFP’s to see if the state needs anything that my employer can supply. It’s an interesting task, in part, because it’s a way to see first hand what various state departments are spending tax dollars on. Most of the time, expenditures seem pretty straight…
As the usual and unusual suspects emerge out of the woodwork, we can be sure that we’re going to see and hear some things that should induce a chuckle amongst the politically astute. And there’s no better example than now-Former RI Democratic Party chair Bill Lynch: The partisan politics of Washington are no longer providing…