Seeding the Grass Roots
The East Providence Taxpayer Association is getting a lot of well deserved press, lately. The dispute in their city is big news, and the EPTA is keeping a consistent and measured message out there. From today’s Providence Journal: Standing in the cold outside East Providence High School yesterday, a lone spokesman for the East Providence…
I’ve been meaning to make sure y’all are aware of a newly available resource for transparency in state government: For the first time, the commission has posted online the latest financial disclosure statement filed by each of the state’s general officers – the governor, lieutenant governor, state treasurer, secretary of state and attorney general –…
According to Rasmussen, when given a choice between a government that provides fewer services and sets lower taxes and one that demands higher taxes but offers more services, Americans choose smaller government by a 59% to 28% margin. So, if these views are in the majority, why is it that our elected representatives do the…
As I admitted this morning, I haven’t been entirely sure where TransformRI fits into a complementary strategy for the advancement of reform in Rhode Island. Looking at the group’s Web site, my impression is that, beyond reinforcing grassroots efforts, the group’s role should be to liaise between the Republican Party and the various groups that…
If the statewide election results accomplished anything, this year, it was to up the ante for pessimism in Rhode Island. Whereas we used to ask each other how bad things would have to get, here, before voters would begin to wake up, it is beginning to seem more realistic to ask whether the state can…
Paul at Powerline suggests some actions that rightward Americans can take in order to rebound from the election. This one is particularly significant here in Rhode Island: Support fledgling conservative institutions. The left has “marched through our institutions” – including the MSM, Hollywood, the public schools, academia, and even large swaths of corporate America. Conservatives…
I just passed a woman standing at the corner of Union and West Main in Portsmouth holding a home-made sign reading: Try the REPUBLICANS for Change Now, I don’t know if she intended just to buck the national mantra or if she’s referring to state and municipal elections, to which her message is more clearly…
When it so happens that the powers that be seem intent on acting in opposition to crystal clear reality, citizens are compelled to act. In Rhode Island, there’s hope — or, in any case, we’ve hope — that plain information will serve to stop the tides, because it is in the universal self-interest to do…
By the way, I would be shirking my agitator’s duty if I didn’t highlight some folks who managed to get out to Fall River and counterprotest the picket that didn’t happen: But even though a judge had said such picketing would be legal, the union didn’t show up. Instead, two Portsmouth residents stood outside the…
