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The Young Democrats of Rhode Island says the next chairperson of the state Democratic Party should reflect “both the best interests of Rhode Island and the principles of the national Democratic Party.”
“That includes,” they said in an email, “firm commitments to reproductive justice, gun safety reforms, repealing voter ID, and making government more accessible and transparent.”
David Caprio resigned yesterday from the post after an NBC 10 Parker Gavigan scoop about his beach concession stand contract. Gavigan reported that Caprio assumed the contracts after Cranston state Rep. Peter Palumbo won the bid, dropped out and then took a job managing the concession stands for Caprio.
Caprio is a conservative Democrat who was ousted from his legislative seat by progressive Democrat Teresa Tanzi in 2010. Caprio was recommended as chairman by former Speaker Gordon Fox.
Here’s the Young Democrats full press release:
Like many in the state, the Young Democrats of Rhode Island were surprised to learn of David Caprio’s resignation from the crucial role of Rhode Island Democratic Party Chair. We wish to sincerely thank him for his hard work and his many years of service to Rhode Island.
We now must look to the future; YDRI congratulates Representative Grace Diaz on her elevation to Acting Chair, and we wish her the best of luck during this time of transition.
The RI Democratic Party Chair plays a powerful but underappreciated role. The Chair facilitates connections between candidates and incumbents at every level of our state’s democracy, from our city and town committees up through the Governor’s office. The Chair wields and distributes both financial and informational resources, including fundraising support and access to our party’s voter tracking database.
Most importantly, the Chair must act as a visible embodiment of and vigorous advocate for the ideals of the Democratic Party.
It is with these responsibilities in mind that the Young Democrats of Rhode Island urges that we, as soon as possible, nominate a new chair that reflects both the best interests of Rhode Island and the principles of the national Democratic Party. That includes firm commitments to reproductive justice, gun safety reforms, repealing voter ID, and making government more accessible and transparent, positions that are keystones of the national Democratic Platform and popular with Rhode Islanders. As always, we are confident that a Rhode Island Democratic Party built on these principles will help level the playing field, expand economic opportunities, and raise the quality of life for Rhode Islanders—young and old—across our state.
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“Seth introduces ‘Insider Politics’ and ‘Mismanagement’, two consummate practitioners of the old politics that is ruining Rhode Island,” said campaign manager Evan England in an email. Here they are:
England didn’t exactly answer when I asked him if “Insider Politics” and “Mismanagement” were meant to be represent his primary opponent Frank Caprio.
“The characters represent the old politics that have brought Rhode Island the highest unemployment in the country,” England wrote. “Seth’s frustration with insider politics and mismanagement – a position many Rhode Islanders share – has been a consistent theme of his campaign.”
The commercials will be airing on TV as Rhode Islanders learn more about Frank’s brother David Caprio resigning as chairman of the state Democratic Party after an NBC10 Parker Gavigan scoop. Gavigan reported that David Caprio assumed the contracts for three state beach concession stands after the winning bidder, Cranston Rep. Peter Palumbo, dropped out and went to work for Caprio. The state police are investigating, reported Gavigan.
In the email from the Magaziner camp, England writes, “It’s time to kick ‘Insider Politics’ and ‘Mismanagement’ out and elect new leaders who will give Rhode Island a fresh start at creating jobs.”
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How do you know Democrats are slowly starting to win the hearts and minds of Americans when it comes to addressing climate change?
When every witness at a Congressional committee hearing – even those invited by Republicans – can agree that climate change is real and caused carbon emissions.
To kick off the hearing on the costs of climate change, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse asked everyone: “It appears to me that everybody on this panel agrees that climate change is real, it’s really happening, and it relates to carbon emissions. Is that true across the board of all five of you?”
They all said yes. Here’s the video:
It was a Budget Committee hearing titled: “The Costs of Inaction: The Economic and Budgetary Consequences of Climate Change” and you can see a list of the witnesses here.
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Matunuck – Armed with just two sticks and a string, a group of 15 environmentalists took to South Kingstown Town Beach to tackle one of the biggest issues facing Rhode Island: eroding barrier beaches.
“The reason we can hold this kind of workshop is that the technique we use to actually monitor, to create these (profiles) is with a very simple technique,” said Bryan Oakley, University of Rhode Island graduate and Asst. Professor of Environmental Earth Sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University. “We don’t have anything that costs more than $30 to build these sticks. It literally is as we call it two sticks and a string.’ ”
The training is sponsored by the Coastal Resources Management Council in collaboration with the Rhode Island Geological Survey at URI, the beach gathering was intended to encourage volunteers to actively participate in monitoring changes and collecting data on the state’s barrier beaches.
The Emory Board Method
“We like it because it doesn’t require a lot of fancy equipment, “ said Oakley. “So in this day and age of funding, we can go out and set up a new profile for very little money. It’s just time to go run the data.”
Dubbed the Emery Board method, the profile technique was formulated by the late Kenneth O. Emery, (K.O.), Scientist Emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
“Anybody can learn how to do it. It’s just a matter of consistency and really practice,” said Oakley. “You get better, you get faster, you get more efficient the more you do it.”
“It’s a field driven technique, we like that because its easy to sit and look at GIS and look at long-term changes, to the shoreline, but a lot of the detail is, you’re out here the day after a storm, you collect the data and you can say something about how much the shoreline went away,” he said.
Assisting the two professors in instruction were Janet Freedman, CRMC Coastal Geologist and Rob Hollis, URI Graduate Student.
The two sticks method was also the more practical choice for volunteer profiling as the more technical, kinematic GPS systems cost anywhere from $30,000 to $60,000.
Volunteers were also given tracking, plotting and sketching instruction for future use on their chosen beaches across the state.
“Things are about to happen here,” said Boothroyd. “They are already happening.”
Pointing to South Kingstown Town Beach, where Boothroyd established a profile in 1996, he said, “This is a highly erodible place. It’s eroding at the same rate that some of the beaches are eroding and even more. And we think, we don’t know yet, and we hope the SAMP will shed some light on it, that there’s wave refraction around the shallower water out here. That’s a focus here.”
“The CRMC asked us to start a profile here in 1996,” Boothroyd said.
“They built this part in 1992,” he said of the town beach’s pavilion. “And they built the shore-parallel boardwalk in 1994. Almost as soon as it was built, people started noticing that the scarp and the bluff were approaching the boardwalk pilings.”
Taking care to school participants on the need for beach profiling, Boothroyd and Oakley walked the group through the history and science of the eroding shoreline. Before heading out onto the beach for hands-on training, the educators presented a basic foundation of changes and profiles generally seen on Rhode Island beaches.
Recovery takes time
The South Kingstown Town Beach is serving as the subject because it provides both historical and current change lessons in geology and meteorology.
“You know that the storms pass off to the east – that the wind comes in from the northeast – and we have what is known as Nor’easters,” said Boothroyd. “Everybody calls an extra- tropical cyclone a Nor’easter, but here if the storm track passes to the west, we have winds coming in from the southeast, so we really have So’easters on this coast. “[It] depends on which way your coast faces.”
Using Superstorm Sandy as a severe weather gauge, Boothroyd explained Sandy’s path and turn away from the RI coast.
“If Sandy hadn’t turned, we’d look like New Jersey. Not everyone believes it, but we dodged a bullet.”
The historical data for the beach, chronicled the changes since Sandy brought the sea ashore in Matunuck.
“Without this data, we wouldn’t know that the bluff here went back 7 meters during Sandy – the crest of the bluff,” said Oakley.
Engaging the participants, Oakley pointed to the scarp (slope formed by wave action) west of the pavilion. “So that scarp you see down there went back, 23 feet give or take during one storm.”
Natural replenishment and erosion is a long process, with intermittent storms and activity forestalling and contributing, in either positive or negative processes, the construct of the barrier beach.
“We’ve found over the years that there’s a cycle, although I’d hate to call it a cycle, but there’s a pattern,” said Boothroyd. “If you start with a very large beach with a big berm, then you have a moderate storm, severe storm, and post-storm recovery, over time it comes back. But it takes actually years to come back, so we’re still recovering here after Sandy.”
CRMC may offer additional beach profiling training sessions in the future, according to Laura Dwyer, spokesperson for CRMC.
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