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Congressional candidate Abel Collins will be participating in the CD2 debate tonight. Well, sort of.
The Collins campaign will either livestream their candidates responses to the debate questions immediately after WPRI’s portion ends at 8 p.m. or it will release a You Tube video of their responses to the questions later that evening. Either way, you’ll be able to watch Collins participate in the CD2 debate on RI Future.
WPRI, which made an editorial decision to exclude Collins from its debate, taped the event earlier today. Collins has a rally planned at the station today at 5:30 to deliver a petition with more than 1,100 signatures asking for him to be included.
“I am disappointed that this debate was recorded earlier today, and we we’re not given the chance to deliver our petition to station management before the debate started, but it has been clear to us that WPRI/ FOX Providence never intended to have us on the stage next to our opponents,” Collins said in an email. “We will have our say and we will make our case to the voters in Rhode Island’s Second district.”
Campaign Manager Dave Fisher added, “It gives one pause that this debate is the only one in the series that was pre-recorded. It seems that the station management knew for some time that there would be public backlash to the exclusion of Abel from this debate. This entire process has been an affront to our democratic principles.”
Fisher added, “If Langevin and Riley had any integrity whatsoever, they would have boycotted the debate.”
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Did you know this isn’t Mike Riley’s first run for public office? According to this You Tube video he made, a more hirsute Riley ran for state Senate District 36 in 2010.
In it, he says, among other things, “We need to have teachers willing to work extra days and extra hours for no more pay. But that’s just education reform. We have serious other issues here in Rhode Island, many of which aren’t outlined here and won’t be covered in this little speech.”
It’s still worth a watch though:
Here’s another video of Riley lamenting not receiving the endorsement of the Narragansett Town Republican Committee:
And here he is apparently lamenting not receiving the endorsement of Barack Obama:
And on this You Tube video about Wisconsin’s organized labor politics, he commented, “awesome…..can’t wait to meet them in the streets for some real collective bargaining.” It was flagged for being inappropriate, so it’s hard to find.
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First Mike Riley was telling lies about Congressman Jim Langevin in TV commercials. Now, we’re pretty certain he’s telling lies about RI Future to other reporters. Or, it’s just another example of why Mike “McCarthyism” Riley is totally unfit to represent Rhode Island in Congress (we’ll offer more evidence of as much a little later this morning).
Riley and Langevin debate, without candidate Abel Collins, on WPRI tonight at 7. The market’s leading TV news station blundered big time in not including Collins in the debate, and exacerbated the mistake by not being forthcoming with their reasoning for doing so. Journalism should err on the side of inclusion and explanation and WPRI did neither with their responsibility to host this particular congressional debate. Such decisions deserve scrutiny and ace reporters Tim White, Ted Nesi and others who work there would be demanding nothing less if the subject wasn’t their employer.
For a man who says he possesses uncommon integrity, the ProJo Politifact team sure does catch Brendan Doherty telling a lot of lies. Today, they refute his accusation that Congressman Cicilline, when mayor of Providence, “espoused a sanctuary city.” Doherty has been poltifacted six times and half of those times he wasn’t telling the truth. He was given a half-true and a mostly true and only once was he said to be telling the full truth. This from a candidate whose campaign is based around his opponent being distrustful.
Admit it, you wish you were too high-brow to pay attention to them but Dan McGowan makes great lists. Today’s list shows which RI communities have the highest rates of unemployment and it looks a lot like lists of the communities with the worst budget situations as well as public school high-stakes testing results. What does that indicate? (Hint: it isn’t the unions fault)
Thanks to Ed Fitzpatrick for joining RI Future in calling for the town of Smithfield to change the name of a local road named after a KKK leader … it seemed like a no-brainder to us, too, and we kept waiting for the rest of the state to join the call. But evidently Rhode Islanders were too busy rallying against civil liberties and looking for frightened voters in attics to care…
The mortgage crisis in Rhode Island, in case you didn’t know, is a Gordian knot – meaning untangling the mess may prove impossible without a special solution. That solution looks like it could be loan modifications.
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For years the marquee on the iconic Columbus Theatre on Broadway has read “Opening Soon” and now finally it’s true. The famed theater that has hosted everything from opera to porn reopens on November 17 with a show headlined by The Low Anthem, a local indie folk band that has made a name of itself on the national stage recently.
They will be joined by Brown Bird, Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes, Sugar Honey Iced Tea, Vudu Sister, Alec K Redfearn, “and a mystery guest to be announced later for all the right reasons,” according to an announcement on Low Anthem’s website.
“We invite you to be a part of the rebirth of Columbus Theatre!” says their website. “There will be 2 (or 3) stages. Julians double-decker food truck omnibus and Nice Slice pizza will be vending outside, and Revival Brewing will be supplying sweet juices. The kick-off show will be RIDICULOUS and may include charity hair-cuts by band-members.”
Proceeds from the show will go towards the restoration of the theater as well as to Providence charity that provides education and health assistance in Nicaragua. Click here for tickets.
This theatre had seen everything, and embodied a centurys worth of American contradictions (note dubious anti-hero namesake). From the glorious heights of opera to the survivalism of its XXX film years, it has hosted everyone from Lightning Bolt to Julie Andrews. It has been the subject of endless first amendment law suits. It has been over the years lobbied, condemned, bent and bargained for like a cherished property of Monopoly America.
Low Anthem has been practicing in the theater as of late, according to their post.
The Columbus Theatre has become a rehearsal and recording home for we of The Low Anthem. It is a dream. We have set up shop in the 1930?s dance and acting school above the Broadway marquee. It is a magical place to work, replete with ghosts of bygone projectionists, world-class, double-proscenium acoustics, pop-corn machines, and enough ju-ju to drown a goo-goo.
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