Rhode Island Senate
The Rhode Island Senate’s first vote of the 2011 session was to select its President. Senator Teresa Paiva-Weed of Newport/Jamestown won by a vote of 33-5. (Vote reported courtesy of the Rhode Island legislature’s new instant vote-reporting system). Senator Marc Cote of Woonsocket/North Smithfield was one of the five Seantors — and the only Democrat…
Responding via the comments section to the public assurance put forth by independent candidate Lincoln Chafee during Friday night’s WJAR-TV (NBC 10) gubernatioral debate, that the state legislature will go along with his proposal to extend the Rhode Island sales tax to items currently not taxed…If the governor is leading the way on a tax…
Senate District 19 candidate Beth Moura (Cumberland), who is running for the open seat being vacated by outgoing Senate Majority leader “the rules say we can’t count the votes” Dan Connors, has this to say about independent Gubernatorial candidate Lincoln Chafee’s proposal to expand the Rhode Island sales tax to goods currently not taxed…We’ve been…
During Friday’s night’s Rhode Island Gubernatorial debate broadcast on WJAR-TV (NBC 10), independent candidate Lincoln Chafee rather blithely asserted that the General Assembly would go along with his plan to extend a 1% sales tax to items currently not taxed in Rhode Island…If the governor is leading the way on a tax increase…the General Assembly…
If you don’t believe that the Rhode Island legislature is fundamentally broken, click on the video below, compiled by Operation Clean Government, which shines the light of day on how far Rhode Island’s ruling Democratic-Party oligarchy will go to dispose of legislation that they do not want passed (in this case, the E-Verify bill). I’ve…
Beth Moura is running for the Rhode Island Senate seat in District 19 (Cumberland, Lincoln), currently held by Senate Majority Leader Daniel Connors, who is not seeking re-election… Anchor Rising: You’ve picked a time to run for office in state government, when there a lot of problems that need to be solved, and it won’t…
On Wednesday morning’s John DePetro Show (WPRO 630AM), Senate President Teresa Paiva-Weed described Senator Marc Cote’s efforts to bring the E-verify bill to the Senate floor as being a circumvention of the hearing process in the Senate Judiciary Committee — meaning either that Senator Paiva-Weed is unfamiliar with Senate procedures or that she is intentionally…
According to Karen Lee Ziner of the Projo, the e-verify bill that was recommitted to the Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee last evening had 19 co-sponsors, exactly half of our 38-member Senate…[Senator Marc Cote] said he felt so strongly about, and had such support for his bill (19 co-sponsors) that he decided to invoke a…
I watched the Capitol TV replay of the recommission of the E-verify bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate President Teresa Paiva-Weed announced the bill, Majority Leader Daniel Connors immediately made the motion to recommit, and a voice vote was taken. Senator Connors was correct in saying that Senate rules do not allow any debate…
Following upon the defeat of Joseph Montalbano by Edward O’Neill (I) of Lincoln, rumors are flying that Senate Majority Leader Teresa Paiva-Weed (D), she who denied the will of a substantial majority in the House and the Senate by killing the e-verify legislation during the last two General Assembly sessions, is slated to be the…
