RI Governor ’10
[7:52] I’m skipping closing statements, because the candidates are talking faster than I can type. [7:51] Chafee: We had a surplus when I entered the Senate and I voted against the Iraq war. Stimulus increased deficit too much. [7:50] Caprio: Stimulus was not successful. [7:50] Block: RI didn’t use money to do things that would…
Reporting on Democrat gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio’s multiple statements that President Obama can “take his endorsement and shove it,” WPRI blogger Ted Nesi has broken new RI blogger ground by receiving a Drudge link. Personally, I find the whole thing predictable and too well staged. Anybody who’s been reading Anchor Rising — and who understands…
Scott McKay’s was the first report I saw about the Republican Governor’s pumping a few hundred thousand dollars into the RI Governor’s race on behalf of John Robitaille. Washington political sources who are in the advertising buying side of political consulting say the RGA is preparing a major last-minute push on behalf of Robitaille. Which…
Lincoln Chafee’s time as Warwick mayor ended before I’d taken much of an interest in Rhode Island politics, so I’d never had occasion to learn about his much touted resolution of a teacher dispute and strike in the city. The details in a recent PolitiFact article suggest that he might be more than comfortable with…
Long-time readers will know that I’m a skeptic of “moderates,” although I’ve actually been surprised at just how liberal Moderate Party founder and gubernatorial candidate Ken Block actually is. Here’s the latest indication: [Republican John] Robitaille said that, if elected, he would seek to have the attorney general challenge the legality of the federal law,…
Portsmouth historian Mary Beth Klee is right that Rhode Island can’t afford to put the state government entirely in the hands of the Democrat Party, whether that means a Governor Caprio or a Governor Chafee, who is ideologically sympathetic to the worst, most ill-suited-to-lead segments of the Democrat Party. In making her case, she does…
It’s pretty clear, from a recent Brown University poll that about one-fifth of the electorate in Rhode Island are in the die-hard public sector camp: On the other hand, a large percentage — 73.3 percent — opposed raising the state sales tax, while 18.9 percent supported the idea. And 74.7 percent opposed raising the state…
With apologies for merely transferring something whole cloth (especially in sight of Andrew’s extensive work), an interesting press release yesterday from the RIGOP highlights the contrast between Frank Caprio on the campaign trail and Frank Caprio in action at the General Assembly. During last night’s televised gubernatorial debate, Democrat Frank Caprio struggled while trying to…
Randal Edgar reports in yesterday’s Providence Journal. Kudos to Ken Block for picking up on this. In an interview last month with the head of the Rhode Island Association of School Committees, gubernatorial candidate Frank T. Caprio responded with a quick “no, I do not” when asked if he favors binding arbitration to resolve teacher…
An article about the RI gubernatorial candidates’ appearance before the Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns crystallizes — for those people who still, astonishingly, do not see — that Lincoln Chafee is little more than the candidate of the public-sector unions. On whether he’d pledge not to reduce state aid to municipalities: Independent Lincoln…
