Rhode Island Politics
The following correction (initially made Saturday morning) is sufficiently important that I’ve bumped this post so that it is not diluted by the lightened weekend readership. CORRECTION: Although readers may offer partial mitigation based on the fact that Rhode Island’s method of providing legislators’ votes is not exactly helpful when it comes to pre-dawn data…
Is it me or does everything about the Chip Hoyas check scheme story make him the perfect poster child for Rhode Island political corruption? Sure, the most damaging corruption in the state is entirely legal, but Hoyas’s shadow amply covers that, as well: The obese political insider, pathetically sunken into a gambling addiction by those…
I take it that Monique is responding to later segments of Dan Yorke’s Thursday interview with Warwick’s Republican mayor, Scott Avedisian (audio here). This is the very first exchange in the interview: Dan Yorke: What is your position on the governor’s race, what are you going to be doing with your friend, Linc Chafee, and…
How can a struggling Rhode Islander not shake his or her head every time this subject comes up? The [Emergency Management Agency] EMA, charged with cutting $200,000, was struggling to meet the figure because the agency had gained an employee from, of all places, the governor’s office. Steve Kass, the former radio talk show host…
Rhode Island Senator Leonidas Raptakis (D, Coventry, East Greenwich, Warwick, West Warwick), who has been open about his intention to run for statewide office, has chosen the Secretary of State position as his target: As a State Senator, I have worked to effectively represent the interests of my constituents. I have successfully fought for passage…
All this week, WPRO’s Dan Yorke has heavily questioned the party loyalty of Mayor Scott Avedisian (R-Warwick) for attending A Certain Gubernatorial Announcement, going so far as to call for the RIGOP to throw him out of the party. This culminated yesterday in an extensive and frank interview with the Mayor [podcast not yet available].…
Michelle Malkin presents an exhibit to go with the almost daily announcements of retiring Democrats: Rasmussen rings in the new year with a new poll showing that the number of Americans who identify as Democrats has fallen to its lowest level in seven years: In December, the number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell…
As he promised Dan Yorke yesterday, Rep. John Loughlin has penned a letter (via Dan Yorke) to Governor Carcieri apologizing for co-signing a letter drafted by Democratic Rep. Amy Rice and also explaining steps he would take to help ameliorate some of the problems that the Governor’s budget cuts are causing at the city and…
The RIGOP Executive Committee voted to have a meeting to vote on closing their primary (roll call and more info provided by Will Ricci in the extended entry). Chairmain Gio Cicione has stated that he won’t call the meeting until after the 2010 elections and the rank and file are upset, arguing that he’s abusing…
Part of our problem, in Rhode Island, is that our political class likes to treat each issue separately. It focuses on whether policy A is good or bad, but rarely considers whether funding A ought to have implications of the funding of B, C, and D. In other words, our elected officials don’t like to…