RI Governor ’10
When Ken Block first began putting together the Moderate Party, he gave me some practical reasons that he was participating more in discussion on RI Future than here. I wasn’t particularly concerned, whatever the justifications, but as his candidacy for governor has brought forward, and as the transcript of his Projo chat palpably illustrates, part…
Ed Fitzpatrick takes a look at the controversy surrounding Central Falls Mayor Charles Moreau from the perspective of Attorney General Patrick Lynch’s office: … Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch, a Democrat running for governor, is a longtime friend of Moreau’s, and Moreau’s spokeswoman is Lynch’s girlfriend and former legislative director, Cynthia Stern. … Lynch, who…
Ian Donnis relates the strange tale of General Treasurer (and gubernatorial candidate) Frank Caprio’s appearance on Tim White’s Newsmakers: Caprio’s press secretary, Tim Gray, solicited the treasurer’s Newsmakers’ appearance earlier this week, as part of a media blitz to promote his pension plan. But the Caprio team balked at the concept of Caprio being paired…
Rhode Island GOP Chairman Gio Cicione makes a good point about pensions and General Treasurer Frank Caprio: In fact, Mr. Caprio knew better a long time ago. As early as April 2002, when he was Senate finance chairman, Mr. Caprio indicated that an 8.25 percent return had “proved to be an overly optimistic assumed rate…
Surprising everybody, once again, Steve Laffey has repeated the message that he’s given every few months for the past year: He’s not running for governor. Actually, the new news is that he’s not running for anything: … Lincoln Republican town chairman Michael Napolitano said he got a phone call from Laffey last Monday that put…
According to Steve Peoples of the Projo’s 7-to-7 newsblog, Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch (to no one’s surprise, really) is not interested in joining a potential lawsuit by the states challenging the Federal government’s power to require that individuals purchase something…“I don’t like a lot of the decisions that the legislature makes every day.…
…and do we have a new issue in both the Rhode Island Attorney General’s and the Governor’s races, based on this facebook post from the Attorney General of Texas (h/t NRO)…Texas attorney general Greg Abbott Facebooks: “I am organizing a conference call tonight for AGs across the country. We will discuss our litigation strategy about…
While the topic of grassroots activism is in the air, I’d like to register my opinion that this doesn’t really appear to be an “open candidates forum”: The largest state and municipal employees’ union has invited three of the candidates for governor to what has morphed in recent days into one of the first open…
For my call in to the Matt Allen Show, last night, the topics were the proposed toll on the Sakonnet River Bridge and Board of Regents Member Angus Davis statements against Lincoln Chafee and the importance of maintaining a strong chain of authority for necessary reform up every rung of government. Stream by clicking here,…
Additional video from the Rhode Island Voter Coalition Burrillville “meet the candidates” gubernatorial Q&A may be found in the extended entry.