RI Political Corruption
John DePetro and Justin Katz check in on the latest developments in RI politics.
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss top political stories in Rhode Island.
John DePetro and Justin Katz check in on the insider operations of the RI State House, bureaucracy, and media.
John DePetro and Justin Katz go over the characters and controversies of state government in Rhode Island.
Although the core political story in Rhode Island is inevitably Democrat, this isn’t a partisan post. The one detail I recall from Amity Shlaes’s book, Coolidge, that detracted from the 30th President’s story was an anecdote from when he was the Republican president of the Massachusetts Senate. A lobbyist persuaded him to go one way on…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the ways in which Rhode Island politics encourage or discourage candidates.
John DePetro and Justin Katz comment as the Rhode Island campaign season heats up.
Rhode Island provides an excellent case study in how corruption works. Elections aren’t stolen at the ballot box (except as a last resort). Rather, corruption rigs the game at every opportunity — buying and coercing votes so that they don’t have to be stolen or manufactured. The only way to stop this is to get…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss manipulation of the Census numbers (and the population) and whether RI’s electoral system can be trusted.
With a bit of spectacularly bad timing for Rhode Island insiders (who may very well win anyway), an employee of the state Department of Labor and Training has been charged with stealing funds from exactly an area that labor unions are trying to make more flush: An employee of the Rhode Island Department of Labor…
