RI Congress ’12

I remember seeing all those senior citizens during the election cycle two years ago. That David is such a sweetheart. David will protect Social Security. David is looking out for the seniors. I don’t remember seeing anything similar from Langevin, but he wasn’t campaigning quite as hard. So exactly how are Cicilline and Langevin looking…

In this week’s Hot or Not by Dan McGowan, one stuck out at me as a little bit surprising. It’s the logic of it that surprises me. I don’t blame McGowan for the logic, I think he’s just writing what the voters might think. The Congressman also benefits from the fact that the “B” word…

Isn’t this charming. On May 12, I attended the grand opening of First District congressional candidate Bren-dan Doherty’s campaign office in East Providence. It was a well-attended event that inspired the crowd gathered to show support for Mr. Doherty and his positive message. As the event ended, campaign supporters, volunteers and friends of the candidate…

This would be funny if it weren’t so sad. The incumbent Congressman’s staff put out press releases on his behalf that contradict each other. According to one, it’s a bad thing that out-of-state groups support Republican Brendan Doherty. But then the other hand, Cicilline wants to tout the fact that out-of-state, national groups support his…

As Patrick points out, with his announcement Sunday, Anthony Gemma feigns disregard for his primary election in September and, in fact, expresses near sympathy for his primary opponent. “Gemma paused and said “I won’t hit a man when he’s down.” Then later went on to add “This race is between me and Brendan Doherty.”” There’s…

Yesterday, Anthony Gemma made his well-telegraphed announcement. As Patrick notes, the announcement was very light on issue substance. Thanks to the ProJo’s John Mulligan, however, we have at least one substantive morsel to gnaw on. Towards the end of Mulligan’s article in yesterday’s Providence Journal, which went to press before Mr. Gemma made his announcement,…

If you live in the First Congressional District, the only race you care about voting in on primary day this fall and you’re a Democrat, you can stay home. The race is over, just come vote in November. Anthony Gemma was on the Helen Glover Show this morning and he repeatedly contrasted himself with Republican…

Local businessman Anthony Gemma formally announced his bid for Congress today in CD1. He’ll be running as a Democrat and facing off with David Cicilline in a primary this fall, I think. You’d never know who his opponent is though by his speech on Sunday. According to reports filed by Ted Nesi and Ian Donnis,…

Come on now. When you are the incumbent, shouldn’t you usually have the better team and the better responses available? Today’s response and then response to the response posted on the RI NPR OnPolitics Blog, between Brendan Doherty and David Cicilline’s spokeswoman wasn’t even close. If this was a boxing match, it’d easily have been…

Now what could I possibly have to say negative about David Cicilline finally admitting that he misled the voters and may not have described Providence’s financial picture accurately and is now apologizing? Why am I using the quotes in the title? Well, lets take a look at Tim White’s story about the Cicilline apology. Congressman…